But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me."This confuses me a bit. From what Rebekah says, it sounds like curses can be transferred to other people, at least under some circumstances. Is this rhetorical, that she will take responsibility with Isaac before he can curse Jacob? Or is it literal, in that the curse will be upon her, not him? Or would it be shared by both?
Whichever it is, I think this is the first time that we find reference to someone else offering to take another person's punishment. The first example of sacrificial love, though very poorly displayed. It becomes the first display of what Jesus would perfect centuries later.
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