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Isaac and Jacob

… While the patriarch Isaac and his son Jacob continued the spiritual foundation laid … and Isaac’s subsequent obtaining of the birthright, Esau’s selling of his birthright to Jacob for a mess of …

Jacob in the Presence of God

… in the Old Testament teach us more about covenant making and personal revelation than Jacob, the father of the twelve tribes. Jacob was a son of … to imagine that as children Jacob and his twin brother, Esau, were taught or, at the very least, heard about their …

The Matriarchs

… One such approach has sought to rediscover female voices and perspectives, which are often overlooked in light of the … Rachel, they were united in their counsel to their husband Jacob to follow God’s command, knowing that their children’s … including accountability for the covenant. Isaac “loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison” and announced that …

Obadiah 1:21

… for the dead. This phrase comes from the twenty-first, and last verse, of Obadiah, a prophetic book in the Old … as saviors on mount Zion—and how the corollary “mount of Esau” impacts our understanding of “mount Zion.” Thus, the … depicts Edom as the home of Esau, who was Isaac’s son, and Jacob’s brother, and it depicts Esau’s descendants as …

The Restoration of Plain and Precious Parts: The Book of Helaman

… the Book of Mormon there are restorations of plain and precious parts that have been lost from the Bible, and … Nephi 28:22). The biblical personages, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are almost an inseparable trio of patriarchs in … not the first-born of his father; that role was filled by Esau, his twin; and Esau was traditionally the father of the …

Ominous Onomastics

… Symbolic names and naming constituted an important part of what Nephi called … šĕʾār ] of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but … empire vanishes shortly thereafter. Obadiah: Edom and Esau—Their Destruction, Their Calamity Obadiah, the shortest …

Obadiah's Vision of Saviors on Mount Zion

… verse of his twenty-one-verse prophecy against Edom: “And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.” Joseph Smith and … that runs all the way from the womb where Esau and Jacob wrestled (see Genesis 25:21–23), to the refusal of the …

Created in the “Image and Likeness of God”: Apprentices in the Master’s Workshop

… Fransvan Mieris, An Alchemist and his Assistant in their Workshop, seventeenth century. … faith and the courage to go wherever the Lord calls them. Esau is an unheralded example of one who showed us how to shape our lives in the image of God. When his brother, Jacob, tricked him out of the birthright, Esau was enraged to …

Living Up to Our Patriarchies

… In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, let us make man in our image, … of God’s Son (Romans 8:17, 29). Paul used the birth of Jacob and Esau as his example of the law of election being based on …

Covenants, Kinship, and Caring for the Destitute in the Book of Amos

… An understanding of the relationship between convenants and kinship in the world of the Old Testament has powerful … describing the kinship between the descendants of Jacob and the descendants of Esau, known as the Edomites (Numbers 20:14; Deuteronomy 2:4; …