HONR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bilhah, Bethuel, Opportunism
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Noachan covenant: never flood again (god"s promise to noah and descendants) Abrahamic covenant: offspring will become a nation and will have their own land. Rebekah disguised jacob as esau for isaac"s blessing. Humanity is limited and susceptible to corruption. 9:6 becomes wicked, tell noah to build ark, no reformation, completely wiped out humanity save a few. New command (like adam): populate the earth. Can eat living things (but not blood because it"s the life force) 11:6 tower of babel: built a tower, wanted to build it higher and higher to reach heaven, but god split them apart and gave them different languages so they wouldn"t communicate and scattered them. Put them back in their place (proper domain); self assertion. Eating from tree of knowledge, kicked out before eating from tree of eternal life (???) Younger sibling is favored (against status quo of time) Jacob is more domestic (favored by rebekah) and esau is more manly (favored by isaac)
