Tuesday, January 22, 2008

January 15 - Genesis 34-35:29

Ah, yet another story of deception.  Dinah he daughter of Jacob and Leah (part of the mandrake deal) is raped and then sought in marriage by her rapist.  Well, Jacob's sons deceive Hamor and Schechem and apparently their whole village into circumcising all of the males and then Simeon and Levi go in and kill every male while they're incapacitated.  They do this because of the disrespect they showed to the family.  But then, Reuben sleeps with one of Jacob's wives, Bilhah, and his father knows...and like that's not going to hurt the family's reputation?

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