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Laban is no longer happy with Jacob because he is acquiring too much wealth. Jacob can sense this hostility and in a dream God tells him to go back to the land of Isaac.
Rachel has become jealous of her sister’s ability to make children. She gives her servant to Jacob to have a child with.
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Again the errors of deceit is illustrated in this story. Laban had good intentions of getting his eldest daughter married as well, but his deceit ends in an unloving marriage between Jacob and Leah.
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The foundation of a relationship takes the involvement of two people. Not only did God promise to be with Jacob but Jacob promised to remain with God as well.
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Unfortunately Jacob lives up to the LORD’s word that he would be a deceiver.
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History tends to repeat itself. Times became hard when famine struck the home of Issac and his family.
One day after hunting he came home famished asking for some of the stew Jacob was making. In a uncharacteristic move Jacob bribes him of his birth rights for a bowl of stew.
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So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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So Sarah dies at the age of 127. Abraham looks for a burial site among the Hittites.
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Abraham is ordered by God to sacrifice Issac. He brings his son to the alter on a mountain God has chosen.