Patriarchs
Old TestamentJacob & Esau
Birthright and blessing
A rivalry between twins that becomes a story of deception, exile, wrestling and eventual reconciliation.
How the story unfolds
- 1
A birthright sold
Esau trades his birthright for a meal.
- 2
A blessing taken
Jacob deceives his father and flees.
- 3
The ladder at Bethel
A dream of a stairway and a renewed promise.
- 4
Wrestling at the ford
Jacob wrestles through the night and is renamed Israel.
- 5
Reconciliation
The brothers meet again after twenty years.