“And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.”
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. The divine answer reverses the cultural expectation: the older serving the younger violates the primogeniture that all ancient cultures assumed. Paul develops this reversal in Romans 9:10-13 as an illustration of divine election: before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad — God's purpose in election stands. The application: the covenant order is not the birth-order. God's choices do not follow the patterns of human hierarchy or inheritance.
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