It seems these bible characters just can't help making bad decisions. The characters in the plot are Abraham's son Isaac, his sons Jacob and Esau, Isaac's wife Rebekah and that pork-eating philistine king, Abimelech. Check this out:
Jacob (the mommy's boy) steals his brother's birthright through manipulation (Esau being really thick or really hungry or probably both). Isaac repeats the lie his father told by saying his wife is his sister (this must be some sort of custom!). Rebekah encourages her one son Jacob to lie and cheat in order to steal his father's blessing from Esau (maybe she figured Esau too stupid for anything but hunting). Esau, unsurprisingly, plots to murder his brother. The only guy who does nothing wrong is the philistine.
This is early days in the story of a young nation of clearly unsophisticated people, and if I were to be a bit analytical I'd say the superego is underdeveloped, the ID is winning, and the ego has no idea what to do to get things right. Human nature is not pure - it wants what it wants.
One quick observation: Rebekah tells Jacob to run away until his brother 'forgets what you did to him'. I doubt it Beckie!
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