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The Bible but Make it Gen Z: Genesis Chapter 31 🏃‍♂️💨
The Great Escape Arc:
So Jacob was living his best life until he overheard Laban's sons throwing mad shade: "Jacob's literally robbing us blind fr fr. Man took all our dad's stuff and got rich off it." Meanwhile, Laban was giving Jacob the most toxic side-eye energy ever.
God pulled up in Jacob's DMs like "Time to bounce back to your hometown. Don't worry, I got you."
Jacob was like "Family meeting!" and called Rachel and Leah to the field (mans really said "no screen recording"). He spilled the tea: "Your dad's being mad sus lately. But God's been my ride or die. Y'all know I worked my behind off for your dad, but he's been playing games with my paycheck - changed it TEN TIMES. But every time he switched up the rules, God said 'bet' and blessed me anyway."
Then Jacob dropped the receipts: "Remember when your dad said 'speckled sheep are yours'? Boom - all the sheep had speckled babies. He switched to 'striped ones are yours'? No cap, next batch was all striped. God's really out here being my financial advisor fr fr."
Rachel and Leah went OFF: "Our dad's treating us like we're shadowbanned or something. Man really sold us and spent the bag. Whatever God told you to do, we're down bad enough to try anything."
So Jacob said "bet" and pulled the greatest ghost move of all time. While Laban was out doing sheep stuff, Rachel said "Yoink!" and stole his little god statues (not the flex she thought it was tbh).
Three days later, someone snitched to Laban that Jacob dipped. Laban and the boys chased them for SEVEN DAYS straight (touch grass fr fr). But God hit Laban with that warning: "You better watch your tone with Jacob or else."
When Laban caught up, he was giving main character energy: "Why you leave on silent mode? I would've thrown you a whole goodbye party with music and everything! Plus you stole my gods? Cringe behavior fr fr."
Jacob clapped back: "I left because I thought you might steal your daughters back! And whoever took your gods can catch these hands rn!" (Plot twist: he didn't know Rachel yoinked them)
Laban went full FBI mode searching everyone's tents. Rachel pulled the smartest play - sat on the statues and was like "Sorry dad, it's that time of the month, can't get up" 💀 (ancient problems require ancient solutions).
Then Jacob went full Karen mode: "I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER! I worked for you for TWENTY YEARS. Never ate your sheep, paid for every stolen one, worked in heat, worked in cold, barely slept! Fourteen years for your daughters, six for the animals, and you changed my pay TEN TIMES! If God wasn't looking out, you would've sent me away broke af."
Laban tried to save face: "Everything here is technically mine but whatever." Then suggested they make a peace treaty (damage control much?).
They built this heap of stones as a boundary line and were like "Let's pinky promise not to cross this to fight each other." They called it different names because they couldn't agree on anything smh.
Laban hit 'em with that "If you hurt my daughters, remember God's watching" (bit late for the protective dad act bestie).
They had one last meal together (awkward dinner vibes), and next morning Laban said his goodbyes and dipped.
And that's on setting boundaries with toxic in-laws! 💅✨