Folks, we are talking about Yaakov Avinu like he’s subject to the same motivators like we are in the 21st century.
The Torah wraps these “stories” in a package that our mind can grasp, but don’t think for one minute that we are even in the Avos’s shadow.
We can learn from the “maaseh avos” but we should not judge them, as we are not even on the same playing field