Every year, religious Jews and Christians read the Bible from the beginning, starting with Genesis. The Book of Genesis primarily concerns two themes: ethical monotheism and family. This week we read the story of the selling of the birthright by Esau to his younger brother, Jacob. In case you don’t know, Esau and Jacob are the two children of Isaac an…
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