Genesis 36

Good evening ladies! I’m looking forward to learning and growing together as I pray this resource is a blessing to us all! Feel free to comment your thoughts/questions and respond to each other as this was created to benefit everyone! Anyways, let’s get right into it...

I know these chapters with lists of descendants are really hard to read but it’s all for a reason! If you remember from chapter 25, “And the Lord said to her: Two nations are in your womb; two people will come from you and be separated. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.“ So we’ve read so far about how Jacob was the younger and how his mother helped him deceive his father into getting his blessing since she was told by God that “the older will serve the younger.” We’ve read since then how Jacob represents the child of the promise of God and how he was also promised that all of his descendants will also inherit that promise, and how if we have faith in God, then we are also children of Abraham as well who will inherit that promise of God of being brought to the promised land one day.

Chapter 36 is finally catching us up on his twin brother’s life, Esaú, who lost the blessing and instead represents the children opposite of Jacob’s descendants, who will not inherit the promised land but instead represents what the Lord told us about in chapter 3 “I will put hospitality between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed.”