Finding Rest in Family Ties - a podcast by Walla Walla University Good Word

Leading Question: If we keep score of the family relations in the book of Genesis in order to determine which side wins, the dysfunctional family or the supportive family. What is the result?

It would seem that of all the family histories recorded in Genesis, the dysfunctional ones far outnumber the supportive ones. Note this list:
Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth
Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth
Abraham, Hagar, Sarah, Ishmael, Isaac
Isaac, Rebekkah, Jacob, Esau
Laban, Rachel, Leah, Jacob
Jacob and his twelve sons, including Joseph
Joseph and Asenath, Ephraim, Manasseh
Of all those families, Joseph would come closest to the ideal – yet his road was a rocky one ...

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