| The Old Testament Twins We’ve Forgotten
Jacob and Esau get all the attention. Yet it’s another pair of brothers who reveal the heart of the biblical story.
Andrew Wilson
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are two pairs of twins in Genesis, but most of us only notice the
first. Jacob and Esau get the headlines: the smooth wheeler-dealer who
becomes the father of the Israelites and his hairy, oafish twin who gets
tricked out of his birthright for a bowl of soup. By contrast, Perez
and Zerah (Gen. 38) fly under the radar. They don’t appear in kids’
Bibles, or even sermons. Yet in many ways, they summarize the biblical
story more crisply than any other siblings in Scripture.
The twins ...
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Monday, March 9, 2020
The Old Testament Twins We’ve Forgotten
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