Genesis Message 64 – Envy of Jacob Causes Him to Leave Haran
Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying about how they thought he had stolen from their father. Envy, a fruit of the flesh, never leads to a Godly end for those who choose to embrace it. Jacob needed this as additional motivation to leave Haran and journey back to his home in Bethel. They thought they would continue to receive the benefit of Jacob’s servitude to Laban but now Jacob had become wealthy. Their principal complaint was that, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this …