Genesis 15:1-30:24
Yikes! Time flew by! I have some catching up to do!
How drunk do you have to be to not realize your 2 daughters are having sex with you? Just saying.
I hadn’t realized before that Isaac and Rebekah were married for 20 years before they had Jacob and Esau. That’s a long time!
I am again reminded why I’m glad that I will not have a bunch of daughters-in-law. Rebekah wished that she didn’t have the ones she had (Gen 26:34-35). Rebekah said “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women”. That’s pretty strong! So, Esau realized he married idiots and what does he do? Goes and gets yet ANOTHER wife. When does a 3rd wife solve the problem?
Jacob’s first reaction when he met Rachel was to kiss her and weep aloud (29:11). That would have freaked me out!
How in the world did Jacob sleep with Leah and not realize it was the wrong person? Again, how drunk did these people get?
Can you imagine Jacob’s life? He married 2 sisters who, it appears, argued plenty of times about sleeping with Jacob. And when it wasn’t going well, they just gave Jacob their servants to sleep with. Why don’t these men ever seem to have a problem with their wives telling them to go sleep with someone else? I don’t know if the men or the women are more stupid.
That’s it for now… all caught up!
This post cracked me up. I agree with you on every point. THe Bible is so weird a lot of the time. It can be like an X rated soap opera.
ReplyDeleteOholibama is one of my favorite Biblical names. She was one of Esau's wives. We jokingly said that was what we were going to name Vale :)