“And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.”
But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob slept with her. The deception is complete and elegant in its irony: Jacob, who dressed as Esau to deceive his blind father, is deceived in the dark by a father who substitutes one daughter for another. The deceiver is deceived with his own method: the substitution of the wrong person in a situation where the senses are limited. Galatians 6:7 states that what a person sows, they will reap. The application: the form of Jacob's deception returns to him in the form of Laban's deception. The heel-grabber is grabbed by the heel.
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