Our father of faith, Abraham had certain things going on in his life that got transferred to his offspring. Embedded in the blood is a powerful communication of characteristics - both spiritually and physically.
Abraham married a fair [beautiful] woman, so did Isaac [Rebekah] and Jacob [he gladly worked for 14 years for this beautiful woman called - Rachael].
Marrying someone beautiful isn't wrong in anyway but check out this pattern: Abraham lied that his wife was his sister to avoid being killed for her beauty. So also Isaac lied in Gerar about his wife. Abraham slept with his wife's maid and consequently fathered Ishaemel with her; that trait somehow skipped Isaac and because of that it landed two-fold on Jacob [his two wives made him sleep with their respective maids!]. Abraham's wife died before him and he eventually remarried. Jacob also lost his wife - Rachael at childbirth. There was also the trait of the younger brother being the head - Jacob, Manasseh et al.
On some other post, i will deal with the traits from the maternal side. Jacob's case of being a charlatan wasn't an isolated one, Rebekah literally aided and abetted Jacob's unscrupulous mode of assessing the birthright, Rachael stole Laban's images [idols] and feigned the manner of women [menstrual period] was upon her. Laban himself is not left out of the party, he was a mentor and senior colleague to Jacob in the aspect of fraudulent mannerisms - he unsuccessfully tried to dupe Jacob of his wages, his choice wife and even his remuneration in cattle.
You need to belong to a new [supernatural] lineage [of God] in order to severe yourself from what follows your natural lineage. This is why you need to be born again [anew] - literally!
"...he that is born of the flesh is flesh... he that is born of the Spirit(ual lineage) is spirit...".
Selah [pause a little and calmly think about that].
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