“It was when Rachel bore Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: Release me, and I will go to my place and to my land” (Genesis 30:25). “It was when Rachel bore Joseph” – when Joseph was born, Esau’s adversary was born,12Joseph is Esau's adversary. See Bava Batra 123b. as it is stated: “Jacob said to Laban: Release me, and I will go to my place and to my land,” as Rabbi Pinḥas said in the name of Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman: It is a tradition that Esau will fall only into the hand of the descendants of Rachel. That is what is written: “Will the young of the flock not drag them?”13"Them" in the verse refers to Edom. (Jeremiah 49:20) – why does it call them “the young of the flock”? It is because they were the youngest of the tribes.