SermonStudio
Proper 13
Preaching
Preaching and Reading the Old Testament Lessons
With an Eye to the New
At the command of God (Genesis 31:13), Jacob is returning to Canaan from Haran after twenty years of labor (cf. 31:14) for his Uncle Laban. He is returning a very rich man. He now has two wives and multiple children and servants and hundreds of goats and rams, camels and cows (cf. 32:14-15), many of which he has acquired by cheating Laban. He is returning as the same shrewd scoundrel that he has always been.
