conclusions. And wrong conclusions can cause much harm. They are what prompt Shakespeare’s Ophelia to drown herself, Romeo to lap up poison, Othello to murder his wife. It is ironic, but not surprising, that Jacob succumbs to his sons’ scheme. Galatians 6:7 states, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (KJV). Years earlier Jacob had tricked Isaac and Esau in the matters of the birthright and the blessing. Now he approaches the final decades of