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Barnabas asks which people receives the inheritance and how the covenant is to be understood.
2
He appeals to Rivqah carrying two peoples in her womb and to the oracle that the greater would serve the lesser.
3
He then recalls Yitzchaq blessing Yaaqov before Esaw.
4
He reads these narratives typologically as the younger people receiving precedence over the elder.
5
He also recalls Avraham's blessing of Yitzchaq over Yishma'el.
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He concludes, within his polemical scheme, that the covenant inheritance points toward the community gathered in the Anointed.