Saturday, February 27, 2016

Younger Son

Despite the custom of primogeniture, the younger son consistently prevails over the older:

Abram, Haran and Nahor (unclear on who was the eldest, but Haran and Nahor had posterity long before Abram).

Ishmael/Isaac

Esau/Jacob

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun/Joseph

Manasseh/Ephraim

https://yahuranger.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/blessing.jpg

Pharez/Zarah--twins struggling in the womb (like Jacob and Esau); Zarah puts his hand out first and has a scarlet thread wrapped around it, then Pharez is born first.  Pharez becomes the ancestor of David and the kings of Israel.

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