Genesis 29-30 The Sons of Jacob

The next three chapters in Genesis are as crazy as it gets. Jacob loves Rachel. Laban wants to take advantage of Jacob. Leah is unloved. Rachel can't have kids. She thinks giving her maid to Jacob is a great idea. So she gives her maid to Jacob and she has children. Leah sees that, so she gives her maid to Jacob...and Jacob is fathering kids left and right, except none with the woman he loves, until finally Joseph is born and that's when he tells Laban I have got to get out of this place! This is how you put the fun back in one dysfunctional family! Nevertheless, there are some huge spiritual lessons we can learn from understanding Jacob's family that we bring out in this lesson.