GENESIS Chapter 25~27

Jacob - Just Like Us

40세에 리브가와 결혼한 이삭은 장장 20년의 기도 끝에 쌍둥이를 얻었습니다.
간발의 차이로 차자가 되어버린 야곱, 에서의 발꿈치를 잡고 나온 야곱은 오늘 이야기의 주인공입니다. 

야곱과 에서는 태중에서부터 장자가 되기 위해 다툼을 벌였습니다. 
하나님은 리브가에게 두 민족이 나뉠 것이며 큰 자가 어린 자를 섬길 것이라고 알려주셨습니다. 

25:21.Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. 
  The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
22.The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" 
  So she went to inquire of the LORD.
23.The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; 
  one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."

이삭은 에서를 편애했지만, 리브가는 야곱을 사랑했습니다. 
아마도 사랑하는 아들 야곱에게 하나님의 계시를 일러 주며 용기를 복돋우었을 것입니다. 
그런데 형은 건재했고, 아버지는 들사람 에서만을 인정해주는 것을 보며 야곱은 조급해졌습니다. 
하나님의 약속을 믿고 잠잠히 기다리기보다 어서 장자권을 탈취하고 싶었습니다. 
기회를 잡아 장자권을 경홀히 여기는 어리석은 에서를 꾀여 팥죽 한 그릇으로 엄청난 good bargain을 하였습니다.
그의 나이 30세였습니다. 

25:28.Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29.Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
30.He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" ...
31.Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."
32."Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?"
33.But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34.Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. 
  So Esau despised his birthright. 

에서는 40세에 헷 족속의 여인 둘과 결혼을 합니다. 
이 여인들은 이방의 음란한 우상숭배의 문화에 젖어있던 자들로서 이삭과 리브가의 마음에 큰 근심이 되었습니다. 
그렇게 30년이 흘러 두 쌍둥이 형제가 70세 되었을 때, 이삭의 나이 137세가 되었습니다. 
나이들어 눈도 어둡고 기력도 쇄하고, 마침 이 나이 때 죽은 이복 형 이스마엘 생각도 났던지 
이삭은 에서에게 정식으로 장자를 위한 축복 기도를 해주고자 합니다. (실은 180세까지 살았답니다.)
리브가와 야곱은 그야말로 다급해져서 엄청난 모험을 감행합니다. 

27:1.When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, 
  he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered.
2.Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.  
3.Now then, get your weapons - your quiver and bow - and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
4.Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."
5.Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. 

8.Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you:
9.Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, 
  just the way he likes it.
10.Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies."
11.Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "But my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I'm a man with smooth skin.
12.What if my father touches me? 
  I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing."
13.His mother said to him, "My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me."

19.Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. 
  Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing."
20.Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" 
  "The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.

27.So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, 
  "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
28.May God give you of heaven's dew and of earth's richness - an abundance of grain and new wine.
29.May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. 
  Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. 
  May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."

에서는 간발의 차이로 야곱에게 축복을 빼앗기고 뼈져린 후회를 하며 방성대곡합니다. 
그가 동생에게 장자권과 축복을 빼앗긴 것은 복음을 거절한 유대인을 예표한다고 하는군요. 
율법의 행위로 의롭다 함을 얻고자 들판을 헤매는 에서와 같이 그릇 가는 유대인들이 아니라 
오직 하나님의 언약에 근거한 믿음으로 칭의의 축복을 얻은 이방인 같은 차자 야곱이 하나님의 축복을 얻은 것이지요. 

30.After Isaac finished blessing him and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, 
  his brother Esau came in from hunting.
31.He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. 
  Then he said to him, "My father, sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."
32.His father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I am your son," he answered, "your firstborn, Esau."
33.Isaac trembled violently and said, "Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? 
  I ate it just before you came and I blessed him - and indeed he will be blessed!"
34.When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, 
  "Bless me - me too, my father!"

이로써 잠깐 계략이 성공한 듯 하였지만 야곱 앞에는 험악한 인생 여정이 펼쳐지게 되지요.
에서는 아버지의 축복이 야곱에게 간 것을 인하여 야곱을 미워하였습니다. 
자신의 경솔함이나, 이방결혼을 한 것 등에 대해서는 전혀 반성이 없이, 오직 야곱만을 탓했습니다. 
그의 원한이 얼마나 깊었는지, 그는 아버지만 돌아가시면 동생을 죽이고자 마음 먹었고
실제로도 야곱이 도주했다가 돌아오기까지 20년의 세월 동안 보초를 세워두며 그 길을 지켰습니다. 
야곱은 이제 축복은 커녕 목숨을 부지하기 위해 사랑하는 고향 땅을 떠나 하란으로 도망하게 됩니다. 

41.Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him.
  He said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
42.When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 
  "Your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.
43.Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
44.Stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides.
45.When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, 
  I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"

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