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The Plague of the Firstborn – Firstborn E5

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The Promised Snake Crusher and the Eden Blessing

In Genesis, the blessing of firstborn gets split between two sons who become rivals. God's consistent strategy is to subvert human expectations about who gets to be chosen lineage for promised snake crusher and Eden blessing. It is always some secondborn or late-comer or unlikely one or the one of low social status that God elevates. The same patterns right there with the humans and the sky rulers and the snake.

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