When you even see, so he's about to send this sort of calvocate of his belongings and even his relatives without him, and he's afraid.

What I noticed in reading this is unlike his father and his grandfather, he does not tell them to lie about who they are.

You know, he's like, yeah, just say exactly who you are because I think he's

trusting the Lord, whereas Abraham and Isaac, both times when they were sort of in potentially

dangerous situations, they were like, you know, Sarah, Rebecca, lie about who you are.

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My name's Alex Duke, and with me are my friends.

Sam Amati and Jim Hamilton.

Alex, don't you think we should tell our listeners that we record in front of a live

studio audience?

An audience of one.

One live observer with us here today.

Not a capital O, one.

That's right.

There is in fact one person in the audience.

The one and only Andrew Kreiton.

He is our live studio audience.

Andrew, thanks for joining us. If there's any laughter in the background, you can blame him.

So last week, we covered Genesis 29 through 31, and we had a lovely time talking about junk science and camel chases and Jacob finally getting away from his adversary of basically the last 20 years, Laban.

This week, well, Jacob's escaping revenge

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