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The Bible is filled with stories of the weak overcoming great odds on their way to success. Jacob the son of Isaac is a character who must overcome is physical faults to gain his fathers favor. Judith uses her weakness of being a woman to save her people and land from invaders. Both characters typify a major theme of the Bible, which is the ultimate triumph of the weak.
Jacob the youngest of Isaac’s sons is portrayed as being weak when compared to his brother Esau, “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fields; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents” (King James Bible, Genesis 25.27). What Jacob lacked in physical prowess he made up in cunning and guile. Jacob is able to strip his brother of his birthright, which is to be his fathers heir, by trading for it in exchange for saving his brothers life.
On his death bed Isaac tells Esau to go out and kill a deer and bring back the venison so that he can bless him before his death. While Esau was out hunting......

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