Is It a Bad Deal or a Neat Trick?

"It's always been quite amazing to me how un-predified these stories have remained," says the author. "I showed you some of them the last time we met but I'll read it to you first and he lighted upon a certain place and tired there all night because the sun was set." Jacob is convinced that his brother Esau might kill him when they are out hunting for venison with their father Isaac. He also has a dream in which he sees an angel ladder reaching up to heaven with angels moving up and down the rungs let's say.