“And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.”
But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said: so this is how you have broken out! And he was named Perez. Perez means breaking out. The second twin breaks out past the one with the scarlet thread — the precedence of the firstborn is overturned at birth, as it was with Jacob and Esau. The application: the birth order reversal in the covenant family — Esau and Jacob, then Perez and Zerah — is the pattern of divine election choosing contrary to natural expectation. Matthew 1:3 names Perez, not Zerah, in the genealogy of Jesus.
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