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THE MAN AND THE WOMAN (The Book of Genesis Part 9)
[Part 1: "sun, moon and stars"] [Part 2: "It was once
[Part 3: "The just punishment"] ..."] [Part 4: "Journey to the land of the South of the Earth"]
The Bible offers advice for all areas of life. Also on the topic of "women".
Where they come from and what they really are good? The Bible provides answers to these questions.
We continue our journey through the book of Genesis and then draw a conclusion that our image of women should be taught in this dubious piece of work.
ALL FOR ONE
The last chapters of Genesis tell us about the sons of Jacob, the legendary forefathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meet for the first time in Chapter 34 in action.
The story begins with Jacob's only daughter - or at least the only one from which we learn - is raped.
"1 but Dina, Leah's daughter, she had given birth to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the country.
2 As the saw Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the country gentleman, he took her and lay with her and weakened them. "
(Genesis 34:1-2)
The Lord had published his great laws still are missing. (He does so only in Moses' time, which are located chronologically much later than the Book of Genesis.) Therefore, there is no divine law, resulting in a such a case would be to do
the correct solution. Shechem must marry Dina and may divorced and never have to pay Jacob further 50 pieces of silver (according to Deuteronomy 22:28 ).
But you would have nothing at all to force a wedding: He's in love with his rape victims and asks his father to arrange for him to marry Dinah.
"3 And his heart was in it, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to her
4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor.: Get me the damsel to wife. " have
(Genesis 34:3-4)
Jacob and his sons already experienced by the desecration. They begin to glow with the wedding negotiations and the first condition is that the groom-to-be should be circumcised for now.
(Circumcision is the sign of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants.) Is "13 Since the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, so that her sister Dina was raped,
14 and said to them: We can not do that we give our sister to one uncircumcised man, for that would be our shame
. 15 But then we want to be with you will, you will like us and all that is male among you be circumcised, "
(Genesis 34:13-15)
Not only Shechem is to let the foreskin removed, but all the male inhabitants of the city, for obscure reasons. For still some unknown reasons also explain all the men immediately ready.
"24 And they obeyed the Hamor and Shechem his son, all of his city gate and went circumcised and all the males, which at that city and a . Was "
(Genesis 34:24)
But the whole point was just a rogue strike. Jacob did not intend to marry off his daughter, the inhabitants of the city are now sitting with sore genitals look in her booth and stupid from washing. Harharhar!
In order to put another icing on the cake to the revenge murder of Jacob sons nor all men of the city and loot their homes.
"25 And on the third day because they had pain, and took the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina brothers, every man his sword and went boldly into the city and killed all that was manly.
26 strangled and Hamor and Shechem his son with the sword and took her sister Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away.
27 Then came the sons of Jacob about the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 And took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and what was in the city and in the field
29 and all their possessions, all Children and wives they took captive, and plundered all that was in the houses "
(Genesis 34:25-29)
As Jesus said. Murder If someone strikes you on the left cheek, then all men of the city and rob their families.
It seems a little unfair to all the citizens for the acts of an individual be punished. But God does not mind what you read in his silence on the matter .
If God is not something that is has agreed to follow a unique reaction - as we learn from the next episode
ONAN. THE BARBARIAN
The last chapters of Genesis tell in the first place of Joseph, Jacob's favorite son. However, this story is interrupted by a report of Judah, another son of Jacob, and worried their two sons, Onan and Judah Ger
his eldest son Ger woman. But the marriage does not last long: Ger is doing something that angered the Lord. Therefore, God kills him. .
"6 And Judah was his first son, Er, a wife, whose name was Tamar
7 but Er was wicked in the LORD: wherefore he slew the MR. "
(Genesis 38:6-7)
Judah asks his other son Onan to marry the now widowed Tamar. This fulfills the father's desire, but wants to have children with Tamar. Hence his ejaculation always lands on the ground and never in his sister / wife
"8 Judah said to Onan. Go to your brother's wife and take her in marriage, that thou stir up your brother.
9 But since Onan knew that the seed should be his own, when he went in to his brother's wife, he let's fall to the ground and It corrupt, that he his brother were not for seed. "
(Genesis 38:8-9)
After Onan's law then would have had children are entitled to the inheritance of his brother killed by God. This Onan but rejects vehemently .. Why, we do not experience
The moral of the story is' clear, however: by Onan the good seed fall to the ground and tainted, he makes God angry, and we know what happened then
.. "10 liked since the evil Lord what he did, and he slew him also. "
(Genesis 38:10)
The whole story is interpreted by the Catholic Church that each sperm-waste is a sin: both self-satisfaction (by Onan and "masturbation"), and also as coitus interruptus and other contraceptive methods.
Of course in the real world of coitus interruptus no safe method of contraception, but that did not know the author of this text, God, good. has
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WEAR THAT DRESS TONIGHT
As God now also killed her second husband, Tamar moves back to her parents. Many years pass and Tamar remains unmarried. Judah had indeed promised her to marry her with his son Shelah, if the old enough, but keeps his promise not.
Tamar would like but not necessarily a child from the family of Judah. In order to smooth things, she devises a clever plan. Everything begins with Tamar learns that the recently widowed Judah is on his way to his sheep. They disguise themselves fully, including her face, so that Judah does not recognize it, and starts it off at the gate. to
"12 Now many days have gone, died of Shua's daughter, Judah's wife. And when Judah had been in mourning, he went up his sheep shears, to Timnah with his friend Hira of Adullam.
13 was announced as the Tamar, "Behold, your father is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 As she put her widow's clothes on his own, which she wore, covered himself with a coat and covered herself and sat in front of the goal of openly by the roadside to Timnah, for they saw that there was Sela large become, and she was not given to the woman. "
(Genesis 38:12-14)
Nowadays we think the sight of fully veiled women do not necessarily mean that these women would certainly engage in prostitution. In the past, the probably different.
"15 . Now when they saw Judah, he said, she was a harlot, for she had covered her face "
(Genesis 38:15)
When Judah sees the alleged prostitute, he thinks to himself: a bit of fun must be .
"16 And he made to her by the way, saying, Let me come to you, because he did not know that it was his daughter. She answered: What wilt thou give me, that you come to me "
(Genesis 38:16)
When asked what Judah was willing to pay for sex, he offers a goat on. Since he has the goat present, he gives her some personal items as collateral.
"17 He said, I will send thee a kid from the flock you answered. Enter as me a pledge, till thou's send
18 he said.: What do you want for a pledge that I shall give you your answer?. your ring and your line and your staff that you have in your hands "
(Genesis 38:17-18a)
is not described in great detail the sex. After all, we learn that Tamar is pregnant like this.
"Then he gave it to her and came to her;.. and she became pregnant by him "
(Genesis 38:18 b)
Sounds almost like a little poem, very nice
Tamar can apparently concealed her face during sex all the time, or But Judah look elsewhere. In any event, noted Judah, that it is in the alleged sex worker to his ex-daughter-is. Back home, sends Judah los a friend to bring prostitutes to the goat. But, the whore of course .
not find
"22 And he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her, to tell the people of the village, it was not Whore been there.
23 Judah said, you may keep it; us they can not yet say of shame, for I have sent the box, so you have not found "
(Genesis 38:22 -. 23)
As he tried to pay the unknown lady, he is now out of the woods and no one could accuse him a disgrace by Judah. He finds prostitution is not morally reprehensible. Of course, only for a man, the whore has the death deserves
"24 was announced over three months of Judah. Your daughter Tamar has played the harlot; to see, is she pregnant by harlotry. Judah says: Bring it out, let her be burnt. "
(Genesis 38:24)
Judah has heard rumors that Tamar has played the harlot, he would now, of course, burned at the stake.
Although not part of his household, Tamar (Judah as his promise broken, she had to marry his son, Sela,) he makes a big fuss about the matter.
When he learns, however, who was the suitor, that he himself, he suddenly thinks that it probably would be better but the thing prefer to sweep under the carpet.
"25 And they brought forth, she sent to her father, saying, Of the man I am pregnant, the, this, saying:. Do you know well, which is why this ring and this line and this team is?
26 Judah saw it and said. She is more righteous than I, because I have not given my son Shelah But he recognized henceforth no more ".
(Genesis 38:25-26)
Tamar is rehabilitated. Not that anything has changed Judas whore hostile attitude. But he realizes that he himself also made a mistake added. An injury is similar to the other of an eye for an eye, fraud scam. This is the questionable morality of God throughout the Old Testament.
HAND OUT
Tamar happens the very best that can happen to a woman in the Bible. She gets in the male offspring and even double.
"27 And when they give birth, twins were found in her body."
(Genesis 38:27)
After getting the legal philosophy of the time is always the first-born son of the main part of the heritage. In the case of Tamar's twins waved to him who comes first from the mother, the Legacy of Ger - the first man killed by God Thamar.
A hand comes out of the vagina - the midwife ties a red thread around a finger, so as to mark the first-born.
"28 And when she gave birth to now, did turn out a hand as the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied him for it and said.. He will come out first"
(Genesis 38:28)
But Nope! considering the little rascal changed his mind, sashayed backwards back through the birth canal into the uterus and leaves his brother go first.
"29 But hineinzog his hand again, his brother came out, and she said : Why have you torn your sake such a rift? And he was called Perez.
30 afterward came out his brother, the red thread around his hand had . And he was called Zerah. "
(Genesis 38:29-30)
According to the New Testament (Matthew 1:3 ) Perez is actually a primitive ancestor of King David and Jesus Christ.'s All we know about him and his twin brother did not. The story of Tamar is over.
wife, mother, whore and scheming impostor: Tamar embodies almost all the roles that may play a woman in the Bible.
but sometimes we take a close look at the image of women that give the first 40 chapters of Genesis. This does not in fact in the entire Bible.
PLAN B
The first woman in the Bible will remain nameless. It is from the LORD the same time created with the also nameless first man in God's image.
"27 And God created man in His own image, the image of God he created him;. And they created a man and a woman"
(Genesis 1:27)
known but much is the second creation story of man, which is in stark contradiction to the first version. Here the woman is not created with the same man, but only God's Plan B.
First, the Lord creates a man
"7 And the Lord God made man from a lump of clay, We blew him the breath of life into his nostrils. And man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden eastward, and put the man, he had made "
(Genesis 2:7-8)
This (third) first man God created, gets way, never an individual name:". Adam "is the Hebrew word for" man " .
noticed when God with his super-intuition that Adam is lonely, he decides to do something about it
"18 And the Lord God said. It is not good that the man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him "
(Genesis 2:18)
Since God had already taken the trouble to create all sorts of animals sampled. He first if not one of them could be a suitable helper for Adam. made
"19 For when the Lord God of Earth had all the beasts of the field and every bird of the air, he brought her to the man that he saw what he calls ;. than would be called as the man called all kinds of living animals, they
20 And the man gave to every animal and bird of the air and beasts of the field's name; but was found no helper for man, that would be for him. "
(Genesis 2:19-20)
The search was fruitless. God must think about something else.
" 21 As the Lord God made a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he fell asleep. And he of his ribs, and closed the facility started with meat.
22 And the Lord God built a woman from the rib which he took from the people , and brought them to him.
23 the man said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman , so that it is taken out of Man. "
(Genesis 2:21-23)
After the Almighty unsuccessful million species of land animals and birds had tested for the suitability as a mate for Adam, he designed the prototype of the Männin.
the name" Eva "she gets Incidentally, after the fall, and, as it should be different from her husband who is so expert in the type name. Unfortunately, proving God Not too intelligent design soon as Adam and dirty the heavenly life.
This version of the creation of woman as a helpmate for the man fits much better the image of women of the Bible as the former. The rib story is also preferred by the authors of the New Testament:
"11 a woman learn in silence with all subjection
12 . allow a woman but I do not think they teach, nor that of the man she Lord, but in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. "
(1 Timothy 2:11-13)
THE MAN AND THE WOMAN
It starts but all so good. The man and the woman enjoy themselves as shameless nackedei in the garden.
" 25 And they were both naked, the man and the woman, and were not ashamed. "
(Genesis 2:25)
But unfortunately, the woman convinced by a talking serpent, the forbidden fruit from the tree .. to nibble the knowledge Adam also eats then on the recommendation of his wife from the fruit
When God finds out, he's foul-auer The woman gets two penalties:. This would God cause her pain in childbirth is also forever. to be submissive to her husband - the helper is therefore the chance for equality finally and irrevocably denied
"16 . And the woman he said, "I will create a lot of pain if you become pregnant, and thou shalt bring forth children in pain, and your desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee".
(Genesis 3:16)
that Eve's punishment applies to all their female offspring is, in part, clearly. Finally, God also prepares today's women still labor pains
And that the role of subordinates for all women to apply the world for all time, the claim at least the authors of the Old Testament
And the authors of the New Testament.
"1 Similarly, the women should be submissive to their husbands , that believe that, so not the word, by The women are obtained without changing word "
(1 Peter 3:1)
" 34 As in all municipalities let the Holy your women keep silence in the community, for it should not be allowed to them that they are talking about, but they should be subject, as the law also says "
(1 Corinthians 14:34)
Geba, MOTHER!
The best thing that can happen to a woman in the Bible is to have a child. In this case, virtually all newborns in the bible male. Thus, for example in the Book of Genesis reported the following births:
- From Abraham's sons Ishmael and Isaac, but not their wives
- From Isaac's sons Jacob and Esau, but not the three wives of Esau and Jacob
four women - from twelve sons of Jacob, but none of their wives;
- From male grandchildren of Jacob's sons, Judah and Joseph - but, surprise, by their wives.
In the countless family trees always only male offspring called.
In the New Testament, written hundreds of years after the Book of Genesis, nothing has changed to this setting.
"14 And Adam was not deceived;. But the woman was deceived and in the transgression
(1 Timothy 2:14. - 15)
"23 And Jesus was because he started about thirty years old, and was kept for a son of Joseph, who was a son Eli,
Another 1,500 years later there was a big change in the Church: The Reformation. At the misogynistic attitude has done nothing but, as the following quote from Martin Luther suggests discreetly ". The greatest honor that has the woman is, yea, that men are born with it"
(Martin Luther)
Even today, may in the Catholic Church women are not the priesthood (or even higher positions) hold, because Paul and a few other men of whom we do not even know the name, it have not allowed about two thousand years ago.
"A woman to listen quietly to submit to all. I authorize any woman to teaching and to rise above the man. Yes Adam was created first, and only then Eve. "
(Pope John Paul II, 1988)
A spiritual development, it is probably here with the best will not recognize. By the way Orthodox Jews speak the same prayer every morning, at the men thank God that he did not create as a woman. Is not that nice of God? ..
I'M A BITCH, I'M A LOVER, I'M A CHILD , I'M A MOTHER
having children may be the best thing a woman can do so - that is, of course not that it has any bearing on who they are convinced the next generation.
illustrates this example, the story of the birth of Abram's first son ...
"3 then took Sarai, Abram's wife, her Egyptian maid, Hagar, and gave them Abram, her husband, a wife, after having lived ten years in the land of Canaan.
4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived "
(Genesis 16:3-4a)
Some time later - now renamed Abram from God to Abraham -. is the almighty Lord to visit.
"1 And the Lord appeared to him in the grove of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his hut, as the day was the hottest."
(Genesis 18:1)
God comes solely by to announce that Abraham's wife Sarah (formerly Sarai) will soon bear a son. Somehow relates to the Sara yes a bit - after all, so they must deliver the child over the age of 90 years. However, they may not sit at the table with God, but is sent there, where women belong, now times: Behind the stove.
"6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, hurry and three measures of fine flour, knead and bake cake "
(Genesis 18:6)
mother and wife, daughter and sister sometimes. These are the roles must take the most of the biblical women - this most passive in the way that you can imagine
In the few cases, act in which women are active, shown to be extremely insidious, immoral and cunning
Lots make daughters.. their father drunk and can be pregnant by him. Rebekka cheating one of her sons and her husband Isaac. Her daughter Rachel steals her father's Gods. Her grandson Judah is tricked by Tamar. The order also sets out briefly the horizontal industries.
fornication and adultery are the only situations that deal in which a woman's self-determination in the Bible with their sexuality can be - both crimes punishable by death in God's eyes (Deuteronomy chapter 22).
RAPE ME, MY FRIEND
women are the property of their fathers until they change marriage by the owner. Especially is this attitude clearly in God's laws, which relate to rape.
"23 If a girl is engaged to someone, and a man she sees in the city sleeps so with her,
24 you should run them both at the city gate and ye shall stone them with stones that they die, the girl so that she has not cried since she was in town ; shalt die, and the evil done by you, "
(Deuteronomy 22:23,24)
The man must be because he has damaged the property of another man, the man, because he has defiled his neighbor's wife. . The situation is different if the rape victim is not married.
"28 If someone comes to a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and sleeps with her, and there is therefore
29 is so has been sleeping with her, give her father fifty shekels of silver and is to have a wife, so that he has weakened it, so he can not let his life "
(Deuteronomy 22:28)
In this case the woman is now damaged goods, their resale value has been diminished and therefore no longer married. can be. Therefore, the rapist father to pay a large indemnity, for he is indeed the damage incurred. Moreover, the perpetrators are Victims may never get married and divorced.
The fact that some women may have no desire to marry her rapist, is completely irrelevant.
Who cares? God did not.
MARIA MARIA
The New Testament brings the good news of God's daughter ... Ne was just fun, the old gentleman is still a macho and wants to give people the gospel, but certainly not bring emancipation.
In the Jesus story, there are only two women ever play a significant role: Maria and Mary.
far the most important female figure in Christianity is of course the mother of God. Why? Because she is the mother of God. Now that God has lent without asking her uterus, she plays for the rest of the Jesus saga no longer relevant.
Then there's the Maria Magdalena. In the Catholic church tradition it is regarded as a prostitute. Of these, however, is absolutely nothing in the Bible.
Mary Magdalene appears in the Christ story two times. Once, when Jesus cast out seven demons from Mary and the same for the second time at the grave of Christ.
When she visits the grave alone, they discovered, in effect, that it is empty and Jesus is gone (John 20:1 ). Or maybe she was not alone, but together with other Mary (Matthew 28:1 ) or with a Salome and another Mary (Mark 16:1 ) or with another Mary, a Johanna and at least two other women (Luke 24:10 ) - Depending on which Gospel you read.
Even in Acts, women play no significant role, after all, it is not even permitted them to teach.
Although Jesus is not in his sermons and parables mentioned the issue of women's rights, it refers precisely because of this silence position. Because he could not speak out against the prevailing practice of unequal treatment, he does not seem to bother most of it.
An even clearer sign is the selection of his twelve disciples, all of whom are male. There was probably not a woman who was so apt for it, like the men that Jesus chose, as Judas.
The Gospel of Thomas consists only of Jesus quotes. In one, Jesus makes the women hope to equal rights as men. For if the effort is really, says Christ, they can turn into men. The Savior knows what women want.
( Thomas 114)
Jesus does not contradict, when Peter says that women are not worthy of life. But if they only believe firmly in the Savior, he releases it, perhaps from their terrible fate to have to be a woman. Praise to the Lord!
>> Part 9: "The man and the woman"
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[Part 1: "sun, moon and stars"] [Part 2: "It was once
[Part 3: "The just punishment"] ..."] [Part 4: "Journey to the land of the South of the Earth"]
The Bible offers advice for all areas of life. Also on the topic of "women".
Where they come from and what they really are good? The Bible provides answers to these questions.
We continue our journey through the book of Genesis and then draw a conclusion that our image of women should be taught in this dubious piece of work.
ALL FOR ONE
The last chapters of Genesis tell us about the sons of Jacob, the legendary forefathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meet for the first time in Chapter 34 in action.
The story begins with Jacob's only daughter - or at least the only one from which we learn - is raped.
"1 but Dina, Leah's daughter, she had given birth to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the country.
2 As the saw Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the country gentleman, he took her and lay with her and weakened them. "
(Genesis 34:1-2)
The Lord had published his great laws still are missing. (He does so only in Moses' time, which are located chronologically much later than the Book of Genesis.) Therefore, there is no divine law, resulting in a such a case would be to do
the correct solution. Shechem must marry Dina and may divorced and never have to pay Jacob further 50 pieces of silver (according to Deuteronomy 22:28 ).
But you would have nothing at all to force a wedding: He's in love with his rape victims and asks his father to arrange for him to marry Dinah.
"3 And his heart was in it, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to her
4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor.: Get me the damsel to wife. " have
(Genesis 34:3-4)
Jacob and his sons already experienced by the desecration. They begin to glow with the wedding negotiations and the first condition is that the groom-to-be should be circumcised for now.
(Circumcision is the sign of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants.) Is "13 Since the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, so that her sister Dina was raped,
14 and said to them: We can not do that we give our sister to one uncircumcised man, for that would be our shame
. 15 But then we want to be with you will, you will like us and all that is male among you be circumcised, "
(Genesis 34:13-15)
Not only Shechem is to let the foreskin removed, but all the male inhabitants of the city, for obscure reasons. For still some unknown reasons also explain all the men immediately ready.
"24 And they obeyed the Hamor and Shechem his son, all of his city gate and went circumcised and all the males, which at that city and a . Was "
(Genesis 34:24)
But the whole point was just a rogue strike. Jacob did not intend to marry off his daughter, the inhabitants of the city are now sitting with sore genitals look in her booth and stupid from washing. Harharhar!
In order to put another icing on the cake to the revenge murder of Jacob sons nor all men of the city and loot their homes.
"25 And on the third day because they had pain, and took the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina brothers, every man his sword and went boldly into the city and killed all that was manly.
26 strangled and Hamor and Shechem his son with the sword and took her sister Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away.
27 Then came the sons of Jacob about the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 And took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and what was in the city and in the field
29 and all their possessions, all Children and wives they took captive, and plundered all that was in the houses "
(Genesis 34:25-29)
As Jesus said. Murder If someone strikes you on the left cheek, then all men of the city and rob their families.
It seems a little unfair to all the citizens for the acts of an individual be punished. But God does not mind what you read in his silence on the matter .
If God is not something that is has agreed to follow a unique reaction - as we learn from the next episode
ONAN. THE BARBARIAN
The last chapters of Genesis tell in the first place of Joseph, Jacob's favorite son. However, this story is interrupted by a report of Judah, another son of Jacob, and worried their two sons, Onan and Judah Ger
his eldest son Ger woman. But the marriage does not last long: Ger is doing something that angered the Lord. Therefore, God kills him. .
"6 And Judah was his first son, Er, a wife, whose name was Tamar
7 but Er was wicked in the LORD: wherefore he slew the MR. "
(Genesis 38:6-7)
Judah asks his other son Onan to marry the now widowed Tamar. This fulfills the father's desire, but wants to have children with Tamar. Hence his ejaculation always lands on the ground and never in his sister / wife
"8 Judah said to Onan. Go to your brother's wife and take her in marriage, that thou stir up your brother.
9 But since Onan knew that the seed should be his own, when he went in to his brother's wife, he let's fall to the ground and It corrupt, that he his brother were not for seed. "
(Genesis 38:8-9)
After Onan's law then would have had children are entitled to the inheritance of his brother killed by God. This Onan but rejects vehemently .. Why, we do not experience
The moral of the story is' clear, however: by Onan the good seed fall to the ground and tainted, he makes God angry, and we know what happened then
.. "10 liked since the evil Lord what he did, and he slew him also. "
(Genesis 38:10)
The whole story is interpreted by the Catholic Church that each sperm-waste is a sin: both self-satisfaction (by Onan and "masturbation"), and also as coitus interruptus and other contraceptive methods.
Of course in the real world of coitus interruptus no safe method of contraception, but that did not know the author of this text, God, good. has
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WEAR THAT DRESS TONIGHT
As God now also killed her second husband, Tamar moves back to her parents. Many years pass and Tamar remains unmarried. Judah had indeed promised her to marry her with his son Shelah, if the old enough, but keeps his promise not.
Tamar would like but not necessarily a child from the family of Judah. In order to smooth things, she devises a clever plan. Everything begins with Tamar learns that the recently widowed Judah is on his way to his sheep. They disguise themselves fully, including her face, so that Judah does not recognize it, and starts it off at the gate. to
"12 Now many days have gone, died of Shua's daughter, Judah's wife. And when Judah had been in mourning, he went up his sheep shears, to Timnah with his friend Hira of Adullam.
13 was announced as the Tamar, "Behold, your father is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 As she put her widow's clothes on his own, which she wore, covered himself with a coat and covered herself and sat in front of the goal of openly by the roadside to Timnah, for they saw that there was Sela large become, and she was not given to the woman. "
(Genesis 38:12-14)
Nowadays we think the sight of fully veiled women do not necessarily mean that these women would certainly engage in prostitution. In the past, the probably different.
"15 . Now when they saw Judah, he said, she was a harlot, for she had covered her face "
(Genesis 38:15)
When Judah sees the alleged prostitute, he thinks to himself: a bit of fun must be .
"16 And he made to her by the way, saying, Let me come to you, because he did not know that it was his daughter. She answered: What wilt thou give me, that you come to me "
(Genesis 38:16)
When asked what Judah was willing to pay for sex, he offers a goat on. Since he has the goat present, he gives her some personal items as collateral.
"17 He said, I will send thee a kid from the flock you answered. Enter as me a pledge, till thou's send
18 he said.: What do you want for a pledge that I shall give you your answer?. your ring and your line and your staff that you have in your hands "
(Genesis 38:17-18a)
is not described in great detail the sex. After all, we learn that Tamar is pregnant like this.
"Then he gave it to her and came to her;.. and she became pregnant by him "
(Genesis 38:18 b)
Sounds almost like a little poem, very nice
Tamar can apparently concealed her face during sex all the time, or But Judah look elsewhere. In any event, noted Judah, that it is in the alleged sex worker to his ex-daughter-is. Back home, sends Judah los a friend to bring prostitutes to the goat. But, the whore of course .
not find
"22 And he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her, to tell the people of the village, it was not Whore been there.
23 Judah said, you may keep it; us they can not yet say of shame, for I have sent the box, so you have not found "
(Genesis 38:22 -. 23)
As he tried to pay the unknown lady, he is now out of the woods and no one could accuse him a disgrace by Judah. He finds prostitution is not morally reprehensible. Of course, only for a man, the whore has the death deserves
"24 was announced over three months of Judah. Your daughter Tamar has played the harlot; to see, is she pregnant by harlotry. Judah says: Bring it out, let her be burnt. "
(Genesis 38:24)
Judah has heard rumors that Tamar has played the harlot, he would now, of course, burned at the stake.
Although not part of his household, Tamar (Judah as his promise broken, she had to marry his son, Sela,) he makes a big fuss about the matter.
When he learns, however, who was the suitor, that he himself, he suddenly thinks that it probably would be better but the thing prefer to sweep under the carpet.
"25 And they brought forth, she sent to her father, saying, Of the man I am pregnant, the, this, saying:. Do you know well, which is why this ring and this line and this team is?
26 Judah saw it and said. She is more righteous than I, because I have not given my son Shelah But he recognized henceforth no more ".
(Genesis 38:25-26)
Tamar is rehabilitated. Not that anything has changed Judas whore hostile attitude. But he realizes that he himself also made a mistake added. An injury is similar to the other of an eye for an eye, fraud scam. This is the questionable morality of God throughout the Old Testament.
HAND OUT
Tamar happens the very best that can happen to a woman in the Bible. She gets in the male offspring and even double.
"27 And when they give birth, twins were found in her body."
(Genesis 38:27)
After getting the legal philosophy of the time is always the first-born son of the main part of the heritage. In the case of Tamar's twins waved to him who comes first from the mother, the Legacy of Ger - the first man killed by God Thamar.
A hand comes out of the vagina - the midwife ties a red thread around a finger, so as to mark the first-born.
"28 And when she gave birth to now, did turn out a hand as the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied him for it and said.. He will come out first"
(Genesis 38:28)
But Nope! considering the little rascal changed his mind, sashayed backwards back through the birth canal into the uterus and leaves his brother go first.
"29 But hineinzog his hand again, his brother came out, and she said : Why have you torn your sake such a rift? And he was called Perez.
30 afterward came out his brother, the red thread around his hand had . And he was called Zerah. "
(Genesis 38:29-30)
According to the New Testament (Matthew 1:3 ) Perez is actually a primitive ancestor of King David and Jesus Christ.'s All we know about him and his twin brother did not. The story of Tamar is over.
wife, mother, whore and scheming impostor: Tamar embodies almost all the roles that may play a woman in the Bible.
but sometimes we take a close look at the image of women that give the first 40 chapters of Genesis. This does not in fact in the entire Bible.
PLAN B
The first woman in the Bible will remain nameless. It is from the LORD the same time created with the also nameless first man in God's image.
"27 And God created man in His own image, the image of God he created him;. And they created a man and a woman"
(Genesis 1:27)
known but much is the second creation story of man, which is in stark contradiction to the first version. Here the woman is not created with the same man, but only God's Plan B.
First, the Lord creates a man
"7 And the Lord God made man from a lump of clay, We blew him the breath of life into his nostrils. And man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden eastward, and put the man, he had made "
(Genesis 2:7-8)
This (third) first man God created, gets way, never an individual name:". Adam "is the Hebrew word for" man " .
noticed when God with his super-intuition that Adam is lonely, he decides to do something about it
"18 And the Lord God said. It is not good that the man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him "
(Genesis 2:18)
Since God had already taken the trouble to create all sorts of animals sampled. He first if not one of them could be a suitable helper for Adam. made
"19 For when the Lord God of Earth had all the beasts of the field and every bird of the air, he brought her to the man that he saw what he calls ;. than would be called as the man called all kinds of living animals, they
20 And the man gave to every animal and bird of the air and beasts of the field's name; but was found no helper for man, that would be for him. "
(Genesis 2:19-20)
The search was fruitless. God must think about something else.
" 21 As the Lord God made a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he fell asleep. And he of his ribs, and closed the facility started with meat.
22 And the Lord God built a woman from the rib which he took from the people , and brought them to him.
23 the man said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman , so that it is taken out of Man. "
(Genesis 2:21-23)
After the Almighty unsuccessful million species of land animals and birds had tested for the suitability as a mate for Adam, he designed the prototype of the Männin.
the name" Eva "she gets Incidentally, after the fall, and, as it should be different from her husband who is so expert in the type name. Unfortunately, proving God Not too intelligent design soon as Adam and dirty the heavenly life.
This version of the creation of woman as a helpmate for the man fits much better the image of women of the Bible as the former. The rib story is also preferred by the authors of the New Testament:
"11 a woman learn in silence with all subjection
12 . allow a woman but I do not think they teach, nor that of the man she Lord, but in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. "
(1 Timothy 2:11-13)
"8 For the husband is not from woman, but woman from man.
9 And the man is not made for the sake of the woman, but woman for the man. "
9 And the man is not made for the sake of the woman, but woman for the man. "
THE MAN AND THE WOMAN
It starts but all so good. The man and the woman enjoy themselves as shameless nackedei in the garden.
" 25 And they were both naked, the man and the woman, and were not ashamed. "
(Genesis 2:25)
But unfortunately, the woman convinced by a talking serpent, the forbidden fruit from the tree .. to nibble the knowledge Adam also eats then on the recommendation of his wife from the fruit
When God finds out, he's foul-auer The woman gets two penalties:. This would God cause her pain in childbirth is also forever. to be submissive to her husband - the helper is therefore the chance for equality finally and irrevocably denied
"16 . And the woman he said, "I will create a lot of pain if you become pregnant, and thou shalt bring forth children in pain, and your desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee".
(Genesis 3:16)
that Eve's punishment applies to all their female offspring is, in part, clearly. Finally, God also prepares today's women still labor pains
And that the role of subordinates for all women to apply the world for all time, the claim at least the authors of the Old Testament
And the authors of the New Testament.
"22 The women are subservient to their husbands as to the Lord .
23 For the husband is head of the wife , as Christ is the head of the church, and he is Savior of his body.
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives be to their husbands in everything. "
(Ephesians 5:22-24)
"1 But you speak, how's become sound doctrine: [...]
4 that they teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, children love
5 ; be discreet, chaste, home, kind, obedient their husbands, that is not the word of God be evil spoken of "
5 ; be discreet, chaste, home, kind, obedient their husbands, that is not the word of God be evil spoken of "
(Titus 2:1,4 -. 5)
(1 Peter 3:1)
" 34 As in all municipalities let the Holy your women keep silence in the community, for it should not be allowed to them that they are talking about, but they should be subject, as the law also says "
(1 Corinthians 14:34)
Geba, MOTHER!
The best thing that can happen to a woman in the Bible is to have a child. In this case, virtually all newborns in the bible male. Thus, for example in the Book of Genesis reported the following births:
- From Abraham's sons Ishmael and Isaac, but not their wives
- From Isaac's sons Jacob and Esau, but not the three wives of Esau and Jacob
four women - from twelve sons of Jacob, but none of their wives;
- From male grandchildren of Jacob's sons, Judah and Joseph - but, surprise, by their wives.
In the countless family trees always only male offspring called.
In the New Testament, written hundreds of years after the Book of Genesis, nothing has changed to this setting.
"14 And Adam was not deceived;. But the woman was deceived and in the transgression
15 But it will be saved in childbearing , if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety "
(1 Timothy 2:14. - 15)
"23 And Jesus was because he started about thirty years old, and was kept for a son of Joseph, who was a son Eli,
24 was the a son Hats Matt, who was a son Levis, who was a son Melchi, who was a son Janna, who was a son Joseph
25 was a son of Mattathias, who was a son of Amos, who was a son of Nahum, who was a son Eslis, who was a son Nangais, ;
26 who was a son Maaths, who was a son of Mattathias, who was a son Shimei, who was a son Josechs, who was a son Judah
27 was a son of Johanan, who was a son Resa, who was a son Zerubbabel, who was a son Shealtiel, who was a son Neris,
28 who was a son Melchi, who was a son Addis, who was a son kosame, who was a son Elmadams, who was a son Hers,
29 was a son of Jesus, who was a son Eliezer, who was a son Jorems, who was a son Hats Matt, who was a son Levis,
30 was a son of Simeon, who was a son Judas, who was a son of Joseph, who was a son Jonam, who was a son Eliakim
31 was a Meleas son, who was a son Menam, who was a son Thans Matta, who was a son Nathan, who was a son David
32 was a son Jesse, who was a son of Obed, who was a son of Boaz, who was a son Salma, who was a son of Nahshon,
33 who was a son Amminadab, who was a son Rams, who was a son Hezron, who was a son of Perez, who was a son Judah
34 who was a son Jacob, who was a son Isaac, who was a son of Abraham, who was a son Terah, who was a son Nahor,
35 who was a son Serug, who was a son Regus , who was a son Peleg, who was a son Ebers, who was a son Salah,
36 who was a son Kenan, who was a son Arphaxad, who was a son Shem, who was a son Noah, who was a son Lamech,
37 who was a son Methuselah, who was a son Enoch, who was a son Jared, who was a son Mahalaleel, who was a son Cainan,
38 was a son of Enos, who was a son Seth, who was a son Adams, who was God. "
(Luke 3:23-38)
38 was a son of Enos, who was a son Seth, who was a son Adams, who was God. "
(Luke 3:23-38)
Another 1,500 years later there was a big change in the Church: The Reformation. At the misogynistic attitude has done nothing but, as the following quote from Martin Luther suggests discreetly ". The greatest honor that has the woman is, yea, that men are born with it"
(Martin Luther)
Even today, may in the Catholic Church women are not the priesthood (or even higher positions) hold, because Paul and a few other men of whom we do not even know the name, it have not allowed about two thousand years ago.
"A woman to listen quietly to submit to all. I authorize any woman to teaching and to rise above the man. Yes Adam was created first, and only then Eve. "
(Pope John Paul II, 1988)
A spiritual development, it is probably here with the best will not recognize. By the way Orthodox Jews speak the same prayer every morning, at the men thank God that he did not create as a woman. Is not that nice of God? ..
I'M A BITCH, I'M A LOVER, I'M A CHILD , I'M A MOTHER
having children may be the best thing a woman can do so - that is, of course not that it has any bearing on who they are convinced the next generation.
illustrates this example, the story of the birth of Abram's first son ...
"3 then took Sarai, Abram's wife, her Egyptian maid, Hagar, and gave them Abram, her husband, a wife, after having lived ten years in the land of Canaan.
4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived "
(Genesis 16:3-4a)
Some time later - now renamed Abram from God to Abraham -. is the almighty Lord to visit.
"1 And the Lord appeared to him in the grove of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his hut, as the day was the hottest."
(Genesis 18:1)
God comes solely by to announce that Abraham's wife Sarah (formerly Sarai) will soon bear a son. Somehow relates to the Sara yes a bit - after all, so they must deliver the child over the age of 90 years. However, they may not sit at the table with God, but is sent there, where women belong, now times: Behind the stove.
"6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, hurry and three measures of fine flour, knead and bake cake "
(Genesis 18:6)
mother and wife, daughter and sister sometimes. These are the roles must take the most of the biblical women - this most passive in the way that you can imagine
In the few cases, act in which women are active, shown to be extremely insidious, immoral and cunning
Lots make daughters.. their father drunk and can be pregnant by him. Rebekka cheating one of her sons and her husband Isaac. Her daughter Rachel steals her father's Gods. Her grandson Judah is tricked by Tamar. The order also sets out briefly the horizontal industries.
fornication and adultery are the only situations that deal in which a woman's self-determination in the Bible with their sexuality can be - both crimes punishable by death in God's eyes (Deuteronomy chapter 22).
RAPE ME, MY FRIEND
women are the property of their fathers until they change marriage by the owner. Especially is this attitude clearly in God's laws, which relate to rape.
"23 If a girl is engaged to someone, and a man she sees in the city sleeps so with her,
24 you should run them both at the city gate and ye shall stone them with stones that they die, the girl so that she has not cried since she was in town ; shalt die, and the evil done by you, "
(Deuteronomy 22:23,24)
The man must be because he has damaged the property of another man, the man, because he has defiled his neighbor's wife. . The situation is different if the rape victim is not married.
"28 If someone comes to a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and sleeps with her, and there is therefore
29 is so has been sleeping with her, give her father fifty shekels of silver and is to have a wife, so that he has weakened it, so he can not let his life "
(Deuteronomy 22:28)
In this case the woman is now damaged goods, their resale value has been diminished and therefore no longer married. can be. Therefore, the rapist father to pay a large indemnity, for he is indeed the damage incurred. Moreover, the perpetrators are Victims may never get married and divorced.
The fact that some women may have no desire to marry her rapist, is completely irrelevant.
Who cares? God did not.
MARIA MARIA
The New Testament brings the good news of God's daughter ... Ne was just fun, the old gentleman is still a macho and wants to give people the gospel, but certainly not bring emancipation.
In the Jesus story, there are only two women ever play a significant role: Maria and Mary.
far the most important female figure in Christianity is of course the mother of God. Why? Because she is the mother of God. Now that God has lent without asking her uterus, she plays for the rest of the Jesus saga no longer relevant.
Then there's the Maria Magdalena. In the Catholic church tradition it is regarded as a prostitute. Of these, however, is absolutely nothing in the Bible.
Mary Magdalene appears in the Christ story two times. Once, when Jesus cast out seven demons from Mary and the same for the second time at the grave of Christ.
When she visits the grave alone, they discovered, in effect, that it is empty and Jesus is gone (John 20:1 ). Or maybe she was not alone, but together with other Mary (Matthew 28:1 ) or with a Salome and another Mary (Mark 16:1 ) or with another Mary, a Johanna and at least two other women (Luke 24:10 ) - Depending on which Gospel you read.
Even in Acts, women play no significant role, after all, it is not even permitted them to teach.
Although Jesus is not in his sermons and parables mentioned the issue of women's rights, it refers precisely because of this silence position. Because he could not speak out against the prevailing practice of unequal treatment, he does not seem to bother most of it.
An even clearer sign is the selection of his twelve disciples, all of whom are male. There was probably not a woman who was so apt for it, like the men that Jesus chose, as Judas.
GIRL, YOU'LL SOON BE A MAN
In the four Gospels of the Bible says Jesus, not about women, but in the Gospel of Thomas, which is not in the Bible has done, but nevertheless was among the early Christians known and popular. The Gospel of Thomas consists only of Jesus quotes. In one, Jesus makes the women hope to equal rights as men. For if the effort is really, says Christ, they can turn into men. The Savior knows what women want.
(114) Simon Peter said to them. Maria will go away from our midst, because women are not worthy of life
Jesus said, Behold, I will draw them in order to make male, so that it becomes a living spirit, comparable with you men. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven. "
Jesus said, Behold, I will draw them in order to make male, so that it becomes a living spirit, comparable with you men. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven. "
( Thomas 114)
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SERIES: THE BOOK OF GENESIS
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more about Women in the Bible:
Sex in the Bible
women's stories (stories from the Bible Part 4)
Boys Just Want to Have Fun (stories from the Bible Part 2)
women's stories (stories from the Bible Part 4)
Boys Just Want to Have Fun (stories from the Bible Part 2)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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Thanks to great demand and cash willing ;-) I could begin to create Müpftier merchandise, including textiles, such as T-shirts, and mugs.
An example: This T-shirt, size S with the theme "love."
Thanks to great demand and cash willing ;-) I could begin to create Müpftier merchandise, including textiles, such as T-shirts, and mugs.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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A new comic book character was born. In the truest sense of the word. Wucky is still a baby. And therefore it can only Müpftierwort "Wuck" (for more details in the lexicon) say. Therefore, his name.
The thing in the diaper is not his smile, but a safety pin ^ ^
A new comic book character was born. In the truest sense of the word. Wucky is still a baby. And therefore it can only Müpftierwort "Wuck" (for more details in the lexicon) say. Therefore, his name.
The thing in the diaper is not his smile, but a safety pin ^ ^
Monday, January 24, 2011
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
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I'm really impressed with the "flower shapes. They bring a plasticity in the scarf that I find beautiful. The Vorfilz was back on 3.50 m long and 1.20 wide and I now have a scarf in size 1.60 x 0.50 cm, ideal for carrying. I attended lilac silk chiffon with a layer of multicolored merino wool (the wool factory Mönchengladbach) and a layer of aubergine Merino and then two layers on one side of these two Merino wool, which I have stitched the flower shapes.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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The mixed media online courses with Mrs. Bosbach is very exciting for me. I now have from the 1st and 2 Exercise textile Element3 summarized. On polyester organza, a newspaper clipping transfer (blue scraps) and then cut into small squares. These were sewn on Kuninfelt, which was then processed with the heat gun to create small holes in structures.
Then as an idea from the 2 Exercise I have sewn with the sewing machine and sewed them on foil squares with free line movements thereafter. The Filzstrang and Stickgarnfäden have taken up the holes again. Now I have a new cover for my teacher bag. The cover has a Velcro strip on the back of the system and can be changed as needed. Under the label "designer bags" you'll find more of my cover ideas. The bag has sewn the designer Sandra Westphal.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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BRUDER JAKOB (The Book of Genesis Part 8)
[Part 1: "sun, moon and stars"] [Part 2: "Once upon a time ..."]
[Part 3: "The just punishment"] [Part 4: "Journey to the land of the South of the Earth"]
[Part 5: The Return of the Giant "] [Part 6:" Fire Water "]
[Part 7: "OPFA"]
This is the story of Jacob, the legendary Ur-ancestor of all the Israelites that God is love - and hate of his twin brother Esau, the God. Not because of anything wrong would have done, God hates him for no particular reason - just because he can ...
PREVIOUSLY IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS ...
In last part this series on the Book of Genesis we left Abraham, the legendary Ur-father of all Israelites and Arabs, as he had tied just his second son Isaac to a sacrificial altar, a knife in hand, to slaughter his child as God has commanded him so.
but at the last moment God sends an angel to stop him and the human sacrifice. Now he knew that Abraham feared the Lord, God noticed after the disturbing scene (Genesis 22:12 ).
Isaac fears guaranteed at least by this point his father Abraham, who incidentally had been his first-born son Ishmael to the desert (Genesis 21:14 ). Since Isaac's mother Sarah at the tender age of 127 years, died (Genesis 23:1-2 ), Abraham marries again and get several half-brothers Isaac (Genesis 25:1-2 ).
feel as Abraham that he will die soon, he would bring his son Isaac, previously under the hood. Since it is already too weak for it himself, he asks in a strange ritual his eldest slave to find a wife for Isaac. But no foreign understands themselves.
"1 Abraham was old and stricken in years, and the Lord blessed him was everywhere.
2 And he said to the oldest servant of his house, all the his estates headed: Put your hand under my thigh
3 and I swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou shalt take my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites under which I live,
4 But thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and take my son Isaac a wife. "
(Genesis 24:1-4)
The servant promises him, an ethnically acceptable woman to seek and find Rebecca, the master race of God belongs. Isaac and Rebekah get married and have children. This is difficult because Rebecca is really barren. But with God on her side she gets miraculously still children, and directly two at a time.
The twins and their offspring will indeed be hostile to each other forever, but need some hook to exist.
"23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two people shall be separated from thy bowels; and people will think about the other, and the elder shall serve the younger."
(Genesis 25:23)
on the heels
Rebecca gets announced as twins, Jacob and Esau are called. But even with twins must be yes to the first - to get the law then, the first born-right to the main part of the heritage, when the good times Isaak is more.
Esau is born first, even if he has to contend with minor difficulties.
should
"24 As the time came for her to deliver, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 The first, which came out red, all rough as a skin, and they called him Esau
26 afterward came out his brother, who was holding his hand, the heel of Esau. "
(Genesis 25:24-26)
Esau and Jacob is born it is already hanging on the heel - in the truest sense of the word.
The children grow into young men approached. The hairy Esau is hunting and brings food home. His brother Jacob is too fine to hunt and prefers to stay home. He is also a mama's boy.
"27 And as the boys grew was, Esau, a hunter and grazed in the fields, Jacob was a gentle man, and remained in their tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau had and eat of his venison;. but Rebekah loved Jacob
(Genesis 25:27-28)
JAKOB THE LIAR
Sorry Esau seems the good not the brightest light to be and exchanged his first-born-law of a day against a mess of pottage. But of course not only
a mess of pottage! Esau tough negotiations and proposes adding one bread out of his inheritance. Jacob, the fine gentleman, uses the stupidity of his brother grateful. .
"29 And Jacob was cooking a dish Esau came in from the field and was tired
30 said to Jacob," Let me taste the red court for I am tired so he is Edom..
31 But Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32 Esau said, Behold, I have to die yet, because what do I want the birthright?
33 Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and then sold his birthright unto Jacob.
34 As Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage , and he ate and drank and got up and walked away. So Esau despised his birthright.
(Genesis 25:29-34)
But to be sure that he actually gets all the privileges of the firstborn of Jacob still lists his father. The very aged and blind Isaac feels that is his death approaching, and now wants to give his oldest son Esau the birthright blessing. And what to eat decent.
"1 And it came to pass when Isaac had grown old and his eyes were dark to see, he called Esau his older son, and said unto him, My son! He answered him, "Here I am.
2 And he said, Behold, I am old and do not know when I am to die.
3 So now take your equipment, quiver and bow, and go into the field and catch me a game
4 and make me a meal, as I like to have, and I's brought in, that I eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die "
(Genesis 27:1-4)
Esau does what his father told him, and breaks for hunting on. His mother, Rebecca has noticed everything and thinks that Isaac Ollen Surely you can piss, so that he blesses without noticing their favorite Jacob.
"5 Rebekah heard such words that Isaac said to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field, that he chased a game and bring home.
6 And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, See, I have heard your father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison and make me a meal that I eat and bless thee before the LORD before I die.
8 Hear me now, my son, my voice, I bid you.
9 Go back to the flock and fetch me two good young goats that I am your father a meal of it, as he's likes.
10 shalt thou take into thy father, that he eat, that he may bless thee before his death. "
(Genesis 27:5-10)
The old man but could not see anything, but there was still a problem. What if Isaac, Jacob would feel? Because Jacob is fluffy like a baby-Popo, while Esau's skin obviously has the tactile nature of a goat
"11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother. See, my brother Esau is rough, and I smooth;
12 would so maybe my father touch me, and I'd taken before him, as if I deceive him wanted and would bring me one . and a curse not a blessing
13 his mother said unto him, The curse was on me, my son: only obey my voice, go and fetch me.
14 Then he went and fetched it and brought it to his mother. Since his mother made a meal, as his father liked had
15 took and Esau, her elder son, delicious clothes she had with him in the house moved, and to Jacob her younger son,
16 but did the skins of the kid they put its hands, and where he was smooth on the neck "
(Genesis 27:11-16) Jacob
no qualms about lying to his dying father and his brother for his right to cheat. His only objection to the intriguing folded plan of his mother to the practical feasibility of the trick with the fur. But - even though Jacob Isaac recognizes the voice, he is not too skeptical and blesses him.
"18 And he came unto his father and said, My father said he: 'Here am I. Who are you, my son
19.? Jacob said to his father. I am Esau your firstborn; I did as you told me Stand up, sit down and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me .
20 Isaac said to his son: My son, as you found it so quickly? He answered, The LORD thy God brought me's.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, my son, that I set button you whether you should be my son Esau or not.
22 So Jacob came to Isaac his father, and as he had touched him, he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are Esau's hands.
23 And he did not know him, because his hands were rough as Esau, his brother's hands. And he blessed him, "
(Genesis 27:18-23)
Isaac dies but not ignorant. When he has just finished his blessing, is Esau, the real pure. The father recognizes him and is shocked by the fraud.
"30 And when Isaac had finished the blessing of Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from his father, Isaac, as came Esau, his brother, from his hunting
31 and also made a meal and borne it in to his father and said to him: "Arise, my father, and take some of the game your son that I am at your and bless.
32 Then he answered his father Isaac: Who are you? He said. I am Esau your first-born son
33 horrified And Isaac very exceedingly, saying, Who is the hunter who has brought me, and I'm from all eaten before you came, and have blessed him? He will be blessed. "
(Genesis 27:30-33)
But while his son Isaac was apparently quite happy, he does not see, to speak to the right first birth blessing. He already has everything just yet once said. Twice a blessing on a day when it was Isaac really tired. Esau has no blessing of his father, which breaks his heart.
"34 When Esau heard these words of his father, cried He was loud and very exceedingly sorrowful, and said to his father, Bless me, father!
35 he said Your brother came with deceit and has your blessing away.
36 he said, he probably means Jacob, for he has tricked me twice now. My first-born he has previously, and behold, now he is also my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing?
37 Isaac answered and said unto him, I have set it to master over you, and all his brothers I have given him for servants, with Grain and wine I was giving him, what shall I do to you now, my son?
38 Esau said to his father: Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, father! and lifted up his voice and wept. "
(Genesis 27:34-38)
The father dies without bless Esau. The stench is accurate to his brother, who now for the second time was badly burnt and expresses the intention to kill him. Rebekka gets away with it and sends Jacob, in fear of Esau's revenge.
You sleeping?
Heading Jacob has a dream of a ladder that reaches to the sky. Of course, no normal circuit, because in reality, so ladders are too short that it can achieve the universe where God and his angels are known to be living.
"10 But Jacob went out from Beersheba and traveled to Haran
11 and came to a place because he spent the night, because the sun had set and he took a stone from the place and laid him. at his head and went to sleep in that place.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth that touched the tip of the sky, and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it; "
(Genesis 28:10-12)
the top of the ladder is a god. Since that time it was so many of them, he introduces himself as practical. He promises Jacob the blue from the sky and protection on his travels.
"13 and the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord of Abraham your father, God and the God of Isaac : the land on which you lie I will give to thee and thy seed
. 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the evening, morning, noon and midnight, and in thee and thy seed shall all the earth be blessed.
15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you pull out, and wants to bring her up again this Country. For I will not let up until I'm doing everything I have spoken to you. "
(Genesis 28:13-15)
When Jacob wakes up, he remembers .. his strange dream, he is sure that this dream comes directly from God
"16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said: Certainly the Lord in this place , and I knew not,
17 was afraid and said, 'How holy is this place! This is none other than God's house, and is the gate of heaven. "
(Genesis 28:16-17)
Jacob has not the slightest doubt that the angels and the are Lord from his dream real. The equation of dreams with divine messages plays a major role in the Old Testament (especially in the history of Jacob's son Joseph), but also in the New Testament (eg in the Book of Revelation). That explains it with such Some episodes from the Bible, the question of how one can come to such crazy stories.
WIFE EXCHANGE
Jacob has now achieved its goal and now lives in the house of his uncle Laban, the brother of Rebekah. He also would like to work for his uncle as a shepherd. Laban asked Jacob what he wants as a reward. Jacob wants nothing more than to marry Laban's daughter, so his cousin. Of course, the attractive and not the ugly old woman, with the stupid face.
"16 Laban had two daughters. The elder was Leah and the younger was Rachel
17 But Leah had a stupid face, Rachel was pretty and beautiful. love
18 Jacob won the Rachel and said, I just want seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter, serve
. 19 Laban said... It is better that I give her to you than another, abide with me "
(Genesis 29:16-19)
said than done Jacob worked seven years for Laban, he says so his wages, that Time just fly by and the wedding is approaching. love
"20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and she seemed as if they had been a few days, so had he.
21 And Jacob said to Laban: Give me my wife, because the time is here that I go to her
22 Laban gathered all the people of the place and made a feast. .
(Genesis 29:20-22)
But Laban pulls a dirty trick from Jacob, and rejoices with him instead of the lovely Rachel under his ugly daughter Leah.
"23 the evening, but he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him;. And he went to her
24 And Laban gave his daughter Leah his . handmaid to be her maid Zilpah
25 the morning, behold, it was Leah And he said to Laban. Why have you done to me Did I not tell you to? Rachel served? Why have you betrayed me, then?
26 Laban said It is not the custom in our country, that you spend the younger before the older ones. "
(Genesis 29:23-26)
an irony of history: the fraudster is to dupe as he had previously violated the law of his first-born brother, he is now a different first-born right-undoing.. For the older daughter is welcome to take precedence at a wedding, even if it is ugly.
Jacob is now married to Leah, he does not love. That does not keep him of course abstain from having sex with her or her maid.
But do not worry: As James is God's yes dear, of course, he gets his dream wife Rachel and marries her, too.
"28 Jacob did so, and held in the week. Then Laban gave him Rachel his daughter to wife
29 and gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.
30 So he went to Rachel, and had Rachel more than Leah, and served with him henceforth, the other seven years. "
(Genesis 29:28-30)
Jacob gets from his two wives Leah and Rachel and their handmaids of twelve sons. Probably a couple of daughters, but it's probably not worth mention. (except Dinah, mentioned probably because it is involved in a later episode.)
Of the twelve sons of Jacob, the legend now come to the twelve tribes of Israel that bear their names.
DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
After his uncle Jakob another seven years has served, he would now back with his family in the home. Laban gives him the desire, all spotted sheep and black sheep of Laban as a parting gift to behalten.Eine good opportunity, it's uncle again right back at the number with the ugly daughter.
through its superior knowledge of genetics, he spotted sheep breed that is extremely large and black lambs.
'37 but Jacob took rods of green poplar trees, hazelnuts and chestnuts, and peeled white streaks in them that the bars of the White was merely,
38 and put the rods which he had peeled, drink in the gutters in front of the herds that had come, that they should receive as if they came to drink.
39 So the flocks received over the rods and brought streaked, speckled and spotted.
40 Since Jacob separated the lambs, and taught the flock with his face against the spotted and black in the flock of Laban, and made a own flock, he did not to the flock of Laban.
41 42 but in the late feeble, he put them not. So were the latecomers of Laban, but the springs of Jacob.
43 why the man was exceedingly rich that he had many sheep, maids and servants, camels and donkeys. When was the run of the spring herd, however, he set the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the herd that they have the rods received;
(Genesis 30:37-43)
The sheep get spotted so young, as their focus when you mate a speckled pattern. Just as white-skinned people have children when they look at sex is a white wallpaper.
Such a scientifically accurate representation of genetics, clearly proves that the Almighty inspired the Bible writers must .
IN SEARCH OF THE LOST GODS
The departure is difficult, as Laban's sons make bad feelings against Jacob because of the disconnect with much of their heritage wants. God is watching the whole thing and gives the order to leave.
"3 And the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to your country and to your fathers, friendship, and I will be with you."
(Genesis 31:3)
Jacob, his family and the speckled cattle set off in haste and without giving notice Laban. When he learns this, he follows them. Along the way there is a showdown: Laban and his people bring Jacob group.
"22 On the third day Laban was announced that Jacob had fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him and chased after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on Mount Gilead "
(Genesis 31:22-23)
Luckily Jacob had indeed God as a friend. . The Laban appears in a dream and threatens him
"24 But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob differently than friendly.
25 And Laban came near to Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent on the mount: and Laban with his brothers beat his hut on the mountains of Gilead.
26 Laban said to Jacob, "What did you do that you have deceived me and have my daughters kidnapped, as if they were caught by the sword?
27 Why did you flee secretly, and have stolen away you and me's have not announced that I would run up with joy, with singing with tambourines and harps?
28 And got me do not let my children and daughters kiss? Well, you have done foolishly
29 And I would have so much power that I could do you harm, but God of your father said yesterday to me. Beware! that you not to Jacob either good talk. "
(Genesis 31:24-29)
But still the danger is over for our fleeing protagonists not. Laban missing namely his gods. Jacob promises , Laban that whoever stole the gods of Laban immediately executed would.
What he does not know the thief was none other gods as his favorite wife, Rachel ...
"30 And because you then draw so wished and longed for so much for your father's home, why hast thou stolen my gods?
31 Jacob answered and said to Laban, "I was afraid and thought you would take your daughters from me tear
32 Which do you find your gods, but put to death here before our brethren.. Your search for 's down with me and take it. Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. "
(Genesis 31:30-32)
Laban's crew searched every corner of the store ...
But by a clever trick Rachel can hide the gods. you simply sits down and says, occurs when her father, she could not get up because she just has her period.
"34 Rachel then took the idols and put them among the camel saddle, and sat on it. Laban searched the whole house and found nothing.
35 she said to her father: Sir, I am not angry, because I can not get up before you, for me it goes to the manner of women. So he found the idols do not know how much he was looking for. "
(Genesis 31:34-35)
Phew, that's just not fall for it! But the next threat is already in default ...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
First of all good again. tolerate Laban and Jacob himself. Jacob and Annex move on. the way they take even a few angels.
"1 in the morning, Laban was up early, kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them and went and came back to his place.
2 Jacob went on his way, and met him the angels of God.
3 And when he saw them, he said, "There are God's armies, and was the site Mahanaim"
(Genesis 32:1-3)
But shortly. come out messengers to warn of an impending disaster: Esau, his account of the death threat Jacob Had indeed left home, is on the way to him ...
"7 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and he also pulls you forward with four hundred men"
(Genesis 32:1-3)
James trusts his brother not only that he kills him, but also fear for his wives and children.
"12 Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am afraid of him that he did not come and smite me, the mothers with the children "
(Genesis 32:12)
Jacob leaves his family that evening and stayed all alone. He spent the entire night with a man to wrestle.
"23 and got up at night and took his two wives and two maidservants and his eleven children and moved to the ford of Jabbok
24 took her and led her across the water, hinüberkam that what he had
25 still and alone. As senior man with him until the dawn broke. "
(Genesis 32:23-25)
We do not know who has since started proceedings or why Jacob wrestles with this man at all, the later in person as God turns out ...
"26 And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the joint of his hip, and the joint of Jacob's hip was on the wrestle with it dislocated.
27 And he said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak. But he answered: I will not let you bless me, then.
28 He said: What's your name? He answered: Jacob.
29 he said. You no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed "
(Genesis 32:26-29)
Jacob true God and the only question that occurs to him is his name ...
"30 And Jacob asked him, saying: Tell me, is like you said, but He: Why do you ask what my name And he blessed him there
. 31 And Jacob called the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved ".
(Genesis 32:30-31)
God will not reveal his name though, but Jacob is a new name "Israel", which in about "persevere with God". However, he is mentioned in the Book of Genesis in future, "Jacob."
Frere Jacques
Finally it comes to meeting with Esau. But James has misjudged his brother: Esau would kill him not, but forgave him and is happy to see his brother.
"4 Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him: and they wept."
(Genesis 33:4)
invites his brother Esau and his family to visit him. You agree that, in order to ride the wake of Esau and Jacob, and follows them.
"12 And he said, Let us go away and travel, I will go with you
13 he said. to him: My Lord, you know that I'm fragile children with me, to flocks and herds, if they have a day would be an exaggeration, would die to me the whole herd
. 14 My Lord thou shalt go before his servant. I want to drive slowly behind other, can go after the cattle and the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.
15 Esau said, I will be with you but some of the people that are with me. He answered: What is it needed? Let me just find favor in my lord.
16 So the day Esau went his way again gene Seir. "
(Genesis 33:12-16)
But Jacob is not thinking. That he would follow Esau, was a lie - it takes a different path (Genesis 33:17-19). Once again he has tricked his brother. Nice guy ...
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
On the birth of Jacob's youngest son, Benjamin, Rachel dies.
"16 And they came from Beth-El. And there was still a dirt road Ephrath because Rachel gave birth.
17 and she had hard . But over the birth of the birth was so difficult, the midwife said unto her, Fear not, for this son will you have it.
a 8 Since you went out but the soul that she had to die, she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father called him Ben-Jamin '
(Genesis 35:16-18 .)
Benjamin and his eleven brothers are the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel
"23 The sons of Leah are: Ruben , the firstborn son of Jacob , Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and ;
24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin ;
25 the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali ;
26 the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asser . These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Mesopotamia. "
(Genesis 35:23-26)
The focus of the rest of the book of Genesis is shifting now to one of its sons of Jacob, that his favorite Joseph, who is from his favorite wife Rachel.
ALTER Vadda!
We also learn that Isaac, Jacob and Esau's father still lives. Although he had been lying at least 14 years before dying! This was indeed the reason for the stolen firstborn blessing and Jacob's Flight.
"27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre gene Kiryat-Arba, which is called Hebron, is Abraham and Isaac were strangers.
28 And Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old "
(Genesis 35:27-28)
GOD LOVES YOU AS HE LOVED JACOB
What we learn through the whole story about ? God
The church reformer John Calvin was of the view that God has already decided whether you get into heaven or cave -. before it is even born when one is chosen, you will go to heaven and if not , then not. And there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
If one is not one of those lucky people that God has for the Heaven has been chosen, one can not be saved by faith in Jesus (which Luther preached), not even by a right faith and good deeds (like the Catholic Church this claim). That does not necessarily
for a God that can be called in any sense of the word as "fair". However, Calvin's theory proved by many Bible stories, especially the story about Jacob and Esau.
Even before the birth of the twins God had decided that Jacob Esau will be inferior. This he announced in a clear yes. Esau never had a chance to be loved by God.
"2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? " Is not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob
3 and hate Esau and had laid his mountains and heritage to the jackals of the wilderness "
(Malachi 1:2 -. 3)
Now you might come to the objection that God is indeed all-knowing and therefore know the future. He knew even before the birth of a people, which will do this and if he goes to hell, it is his own debt. His own actions brought him condemnation and God knows, of course, always been how everything is. So it is absolutely fair that God knows when you were born, that you come to hell. However, it is
two major arguments.
First, if God knows the personal future of all people, they have no free will.
A free will would mean that one has in a situation X, the ability to act in a certain way or else. If God knows all the acts of our lives but before us, we can act only on just this way. Then there is no more decisions, we have no choice and therefore there is no "free will".
to decide who goes to hell is so arbitrary - if God is omniscient or not. Especially if he is omniscient.
Second, the Jacob / Esau story illustrates it very directly that God has chosen certain people, no matter how behave.
sum up the whole "sing together again: Esau hunts down and provides for his family and seeking thereby to fulfill the role of the firstborn. When he is exhausted from work once and probably still could not catch, he traded his inheritance for a mess of pottage. Admittedly, that was probably not very smart, but not Esau is on his limited mental capacity guilt: God has made him so. His own twin brother betrays him and his mother loves Jacob more than him.
And then dies even his beloved father, for which he has always done everything to please him. But instead of what it would be tradition, Esau gets in this hour is not the blessing of his father. Instead, he has learned that his brother has betrayed him again and his mother was involved. After all that Esau has yet big enough to forgive his brother. Jacob deceives his own
contrast, twin brother and his supposedly dying father. And when he meets God, he beat them. There should be no doubt who is the good guy in this story. But Esau was not simply chosen.
"23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two people shall be separated from thy bowels, and one people will think about the other, and the elder shall serve the younger "
(Genesis 25th : 23)
The same pitch had Isaac's older brother, Ishmael, who was not well chosen and sent by his father Abraham, therefore, never to return to the desert (Genesis 21:14) Ishmael had, as Esau, nothing. . God hates him simply wrong - irrevocably, on principle
This theology is not only represented in the Old Testament. preaching in the New Testament as Paul this position quite clearly:
" 10 not only so it is with the words, but also when Rebecca by one man, our father Isaac, was pregnant:
11 before the children were born and had done neither good nor evil , that the purpose of God would be after the election,
12 , not of works, should be "THE ELDER: but from Him who, it was said to her "Position
13 as it is written: " serve the younger Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated "
(Romans 9th: 10-13)
The God of Calvin, and the God of Paul is definitely the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. no justice. A being that creates beings capable of suffering in order to hate them and throwing them into hell, where they will be tormented forever.
Evil God Evil! Off!
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SERIES: THE BOOK OF GENESIS
Part 1: "Sun, Moon and Stars"
Part 2: "Once upon a time ..."
Part 3: "The just punishment"
Part 4: "Journey to the land of the South of the Earth"
Part 5: The Return of the Giants'
Part 6: "Fire Water"
part 7: "OPFA!"
>> Part 8: "Brother John"
Part 9: "The man and the woman" 
[Part 1: "sun, moon and stars"] [Part 2: "Once upon a time ..."]
[Part 3: "The just punishment"] [Part 4: "Journey to the land of the South of the Earth"]
[Part 5: The Return of the Giant "] [Part 6:" Fire Water "]
[Part 7: "OPFA"]
This is the story of Jacob, the legendary Ur-ancestor of all the Israelites that God is love - and hate of his twin brother Esau, the God. Not because of anything wrong would have done, God hates him for no particular reason - just because he can ...
PREVIOUSLY IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS ...
In last part this series on the Book of Genesis we left Abraham, the legendary Ur-father of all Israelites and Arabs, as he had tied just his second son Isaac to a sacrificial altar, a knife in hand, to slaughter his child as God has commanded him so.
but at the last moment God sends an angel to stop him and the human sacrifice. Now he knew that Abraham feared the Lord, God noticed after the disturbing scene (Genesis 22:12 ).
Isaac fears guaranteed at least by this point his father Abraham, who incidentally had been his first-born son Ishmael to the desert (Genesis 21:14 ). Since Isaac's mother Sarah at the tender age of 127 years, died (Genesis 23:1-2 ), Abraham marries again and get several half-brothers Isaac (Genesis 25:1-2 ).
feel as Abraham that he will die soon, he would bring his son Isaac, previously under the hood. Since it is already too weak for it himself, he asks in a strange ritual his eldest slave to find a wife for Isaac. But no foreign understands themselves.
"1 Abraham was old and stricken in years, and the Lord blessed him was everywhere.
2 And he said to the oldest servant of his house, all the his estates headed: Put your hand under my thigh
3 and I swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou shalt take my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites under which I live,
4 But thou shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and take my son Isaac a wife. "
(Genesis 24:1-4)
The servant promises him, an ethnically acceptable woman to seek and find Rebecca, the master race of God belongs. Isaac and Rebekah get married and have children. This is difficult because Rebecca is really barren. But with God on her side she gets miraculously still children, and directly two at a time.
The twins and their offspring will indeed be hostile to each other forever, but need some hook to exist.
"23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two people shall be separated from thy bowels; and people will think about the other, and the elder shall serve the younger."
(Genesis 25:23)
on the heels
Rebecca gets announced as twins, Jacob and Esau are called. But even with twins must be yes to the first - to get the law then, the first born-right to the main part of the heritage, when the good times Isaak is more.
Esau is born first, even if he has to contend with minor difficulties.
should
"24 As the time came for her to deliver, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 The first, which came out red, all rough as a skin, and they called him Esau
26 afterward came out his brother, who was holding his hand, the heel of Esau. "
(Genesis 25:24-26)
Esau and Jacob is born it is already hanging on the heel - in the truest sense of the word.
The children grow into young men approached. The hairy Esau is hunting and brings food home. His brother Jacob is too fine to hunt and prefers to stay home. He is also a mama's boy.
"27 And as the boys grew was, Esau, a hunter and grazed in the fields, Jacob was a gentle man, and remained in their tents.
28 And Isaac loved Esau had and eat of his venison;. but Rebekah loved Jacob
(Genesis 25:27-28)
JAKOB THE LIAR
Sorry Esau seems the good not the brightest light to be and exchanged his first-born-law of a day against a mess of pottage. But of course not only
a mess of pottage! Esau tough negotiations and proposes adding one bread out of his inheritance. Jacob, the fine gentleman, uses the stupidity of his brother grateful. .
"29 And Jacob was cooking a dish Esau came in from the field and was tired
30 said to Jacob," Let me taste the red court for I am tired so he is Edom..
31 But Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32 Esau said, Behold, I have to die yet, because what do I want the birthright?
33 Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and then sold his birthright unto Jacob.
34 As Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage , and he ate and drank and got up and walked away. So Esau despised his birthright.
(Genesis 25:29-34)
But to be sure that he actually gets all the privileges of the firstborn of Jacob still lists his father. The very aged and blind Isaac feels that is his death approaching, and now wants to give his oldest son Esau the birthright blessing. And what to eat decent.
"1 And it came to pass when Isaac had grown old and his eyes were dark to see, he called Esau his older son, and said unto him, My son! He answered him, "Here I am.
2 And he said, Behold, I am old and do not know when I am to die.
3 So now take your equipment, quiver and bow, and go into the field and catch me a game
4 and make me a meal, as I like to have, and I's brought in, that I eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die "
(Genesis 27:1-4)
Esau does what his father told him, and breaks for hunting on. His mother, Rebecca has noticed everything and thinks that Isaac Ollen Surely you can piss, so that he blesses without noticing their favorite Jacob.
"5 Rebekah heard such words that Isaac said to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field, that he chased a game and bring home.
6 And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, See, I have heard your father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,
7 Bring me venison and make me a meal that I eat and bless thee before the LORD before I die.
8 Hear me now, my son, my voice, I bid you.
9 Go back to the flock and fetch me two good young goats that I am your father a meal of it, as he's likes.
10 shalt thou take into thy father, that he eat, that he may bless thee before his death. "
(Genesis 27:5-10)
The old man but could not see anything, but there was still a problem. What if Isaac, Jacob would feel? Because Jacob is fluffy like a baby-Popo, while Esau's skin obviously has the tactile nature of a goat
"11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother. See, my brother Esau is rough, and I smooth;
12 would so maybe my father touch me, and I'd taken before him, as if I deceive him wanted and would bring me one . and a curse not a blessing
13 his mother said unto him, The curse was on me, my son: only obey my voice, go and fetch me.
14 Then he went and fetched it and brought it to his mother. Since his mother made a meal, as his father liked had
15 took and Esau, her elder son, delicious clothes she had with him in the house moved, and to Jacob her younger son,
16 but did the skins of the kid they put its hands, and where he was smooth on the neck "
(Genesis 27:11-16) Jacob
no qualms about lying to his dying father and his brother for his right to cheat. His only objection to the intriguing folded plan of his mother to the practical feasibility of the trick with the fur. But - even though Jacob Isaac recognizes the voice, he is not too skeptical and blesses him.
"18 And he came unto his father and said, My father said he: 'Here am I. Who are you, my son
19.? Jacob said to his father. I am Esau your firstborn; I did as you told me Stand up, sit down and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me .
20 Isaac said to his son: My son, as you found it so quickly? He answered, The LORD thy God brought me's.
21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, my son, that I set button you whether you should be my son Esau or not.
22 So Jacob came to Isaac his father, and as he had touched him, he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are Esau's hands.
23 And he did not know him, because his hands were rough as Esau, his brother's hands. And he blessed him, "
(Genesis 27:18-23)
Isaac dies but not ignorant. When he has just finished his blessing, is Esau, the real pure. The father recognizes him and is shocked by the fraud.
"30 And when Isaac had finished the blessing of Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from his father, Isaac, as came Esau, his brother, from his hunting
31 and also made a meal and borne it in to his father and said to him: "Arise, my father, and take some of the game your son that I am at your and bless.
32 Then he answered his father Isaac: Who are you? He said. I am Esau your first-born son
33 horrified And Isaac very exceedingly, saying, Who is the hunter who has brought me, and I'm from all eaten before you came, and have blessed him? He will be blessed. "
(Genesis 27:30-33)
But while his son Isaac was apparently quite happy, he does not see, to speak to the right first birth blessing. He already has everything just yet once said. Twice a blessing on a day when it was Isaac really tired. Esau has no blessing of his father, which breaks his heart.
"34 When Esau heard these words of his father, cried He was loud and very exceedingly sorrowful, and said to his father, Bless me, father!
35 he said Your brother came with deceit and has your blessing away.
36 he said, he probably means Jacob, for he has tricked me twice now. My first-born he has previously, and behold, now he is also my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing?
37 Isaac answered and said unto him, I have set it to master over you, and all his brothers I have given him for servants, with Grain and wine I was giving him, what shall I do to you now, my son?
38 Esau said to his father: Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, father! and lifted up his voice and wept. "
(Genesis 27:34-38)
The father dies without bless Esau. The stench is accurate to his brother, who now for the second time was badly burnt and expresses the intention to kill him. Rebekka gets away with it and sends Jacob, in fear of Esau's revenge.
You sleeping?
Heading Jacob has a dream of a ladder that reaches to the sky. Of course, no normal circuit, because in reality, so ladders are too short that it can achieve the universe where God and his angels are known to be living.
"10 But Jacob went out from Beersheba and traveled to Haran
11 and came to a place because he spent the night, because the sun had set and he took a stone from the place and laid him. at his head and went to sleep in that place.
12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth that touched the tip of the sky, and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it; "
(Genesis 28:10-12)
the top of the ladder is a god. Since that time it was so many of them, he introduces himself as practical. He promises Jacob the blue from the sky and protection on his travels.
"13 and the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord of Abraham your father, God and the God of Isaac : the land on which you lie I will give to thee and thy seed
. 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the evening, morning, noon and midnight, and in thee and thy seed shall all the earth be blessed.
15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you pull out, and wants to bring her up again this Country. For I will not let up until I'm doing everything I have spoken to you. "
(Genesis 28:13-15)
When Jacob wakes up, he remembers .. his strange dream, he is sure that this dream comes directly from God
"16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said: Certainly the Lord in this place , and I knew not,
17 was afraid and said, 'How holy is this place! This is none other than God's house, and is the gate of heaven. "
(Genesis 28:16-17)
Jacob has not the slightest doubt that the angels and the are Lord from his dream real. The equation of dreams with divine messages plays a major role in the Old Testament (especially in the history of Jacob's son Joseph), but also in the New Testament (eg in the Book of Revelation). That explains it with such Some episodes from the Bible, the question of how one can come to such crazy stories.
WIFE EXCHANGE
Jacob has now achieved its goal and now lives in the house of his uncle Laban, the brother of Rebekah. He also would like to work for his uncle as a shepherd. Laban asked Jacob what he wants as a reward. Jacob wants nothing more than to marry Laban's daughter, so his cousin. Of course, the attractive and not the ugly old woman, with the stupid face.
"16 Laban had two daughters. The elder was Leah and the younger was Rachel
17 But Leah had a stupid face, Rachel was pretty and beautiful. love
18 Jacob won the Rachel and said, I just want seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter, serve
. 19 Laban said... It is better that I give her to you than another, abide with me "
(Genesis 29:16-19)
said than done Jacob worked seven years for Laban, he says so his wages, that Time just fly by and the wedding is approaching. love
"20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and she seemed as if they had been a few days, so had he.
21 And Jacob said to Laban: Give me my wife, because the time is here that I go to her
22 Laban gathered all the people of the place and made a feast. .
(Genesis 29:20-22)
But Laban pulls a dirty trick from Jacob, and rejoices with him instead of the lovely Rachel under his ugly daughter Leah.
"23 the evening, but he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him;. And he went to her
24 And Laban gave his daughter Leah his . handmaid to be her maid Zilpah
25 the morning, behold, it was Leah And he said to Laban. Why have you done to me Did I not tell you to? Rachel served? Why have you betrayed me, then?
26 Laban said It is not the custom in our country, that you spend the younger before the older ones. "
(Genesis 29:23-26)
an irony of history: the fraudster is to dupe as he had previously violated the law of his first-born brother, he is now a different first-born right-undoing.. For the older daughter is welcome to take precedence at a wedding, even if it is ugly.
Jacob is now married to Leah, he does not love. That does not keep him of course abstain from having sex with her or her maid.
But do not worry: As James is God's yes dear, of course, he gets his dream wife Rachel and marries her, too.
"28 Jacob did so, and held in the week. Then Laban gave him Rachel his daughter to wife
29 and gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maid.
30 So he went to Rachel, and had Rachel more than Leah, and served with him henceforth, the other seven years. "
(Genesis 29:28-30)
Jacob gets from his two wives Leah and Rachel and their handmaids of twelve sons. Probably a couple of daughters, but it's probably not worth mention. (except Dinah, mentioned probably because it is involved in a later episode.)
Of the twelve sons of Jacob, the legend now come to the twelve tribes of Israel that bear their names.
DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
After his uncle Jakob another seven years has served, he would now back with his family in the home. Laban gives him the desire, all spotted sheep and black sheep of Laban as a parting gift to behalten.Eine good opportunity, it's uncle again right back at the number with the ugly daughter.
through its superior knowledge of genetics, he spotted sheep breed that is extremely large and black lambs.
'37 but Jacob took rods of green poplar trees, hazelnuts and chestnuts, and peeled white streaks in them that the bars of the White was merely,
38 and put the rods which he had peeled, drink in the gutters in front of the herds that had come, that they should receive as if they came to drink.
39 So the flocks received over the rods and brought streaked, speckled and spotted.
40 Since Jacob separated the lambs, and taught the flock with his face against the spotted and black in the flock of Laban, and made a own flock, he did not to the flock of Laban.
41 42 but in the late feeble, he put them not. So were the latecomers of Laban, but the springs of Jacob.
43 why the man was exceedingly rich that he had many sheep, maids and servants, camels and donkeys. When was the run of the spring herd, however, he set the rods in the troughs before the eyes of the herd that they have the rods received;
(Genesis 30:37-43)
The sheep get spotted so young, as their focus when you mate a speckled pattern. Just as white-skinned people have children when they look at sex is a white wallpaper.
Such a scientifically accurate representation of genetics, clearly proves that the Almighty inspired the Bible writers must .
IN SEARCH OF THE LOST GODS
The departure is difficult, as Laban's sons make bad feelings against Jacob because of the disconnect with much of their heritage wants. God is watching the whole thing and gives the order to leave.
"3 And the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to your country and to your fathers, friendship, and I will be with you."
(Genesis 31:3)
Jacob, his family and the speckled cattle set off in haste and without giving notice Laban. When he learns this, he follows them. Along the way there is a showdown: Laban and his people bring Jacob group.
"22 On the third day Laban was announced that Jacob had fled.
23 And he took his brethren with him and chased after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on Mount Gilead "
(Genesis 31:22-23)
Luckily Jacob had indeed God as a friend. . The Laban appears in a dream and threatens him
"24 But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob differently than friendly.
25 And Laban came near to Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent on the mount: and Laban with his brothers beat his hut on the mountains of Gilead.
26 Laban said to Jacob, "What did you do that you have deceived me and have my daughters kidnapped, as if they were caught by the sword?
27 Why did you flee secretly, and have stolen away you and me's have not announced that I would run up with joy, with singing with tambourines and harps?
28 And got me do not let my children and daughters kiss? Well, you have done foolishly
29 And I would have so much power that I could do you harm, but God of your father said yesterday to me. Beware! that you not to Jacob either good talk. "
(Genesis 31:24-29)
But still the danger is over for our fleeing protagonists not. Laban missing namely his gods. Jacob promises , Laban that whoever stole the gods of Laban immediately executed would.
What he does not know the thief was none other gods as his favorite wife, Rachel ...
"30 And because you then draw so wished and longed for so much for your father's home, why hast thou stolen my gods?
31 Jacob answered and said to Laban, "I was afraid and thought you would take your daughters from me tear
32 Which do you find your gods, but put to death here before our brethren.. Your search for 's down with me and take it. Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. "
(Genesis 31:30-32)
Laban's crew searched every corner of the store ...
But by a clever trick Rachel can hide the gods. you simply sits down and says, occurs when her father, she could not get up because she just has her period.
"34 Rachel then took the idols and put them among the camel saddle, and sat on it. Laban searched the whole house and found nothing.
35 she said to her father: Sir, I am not angry, because I can not get up before you, for me it goes to the manner of women. So he found the idols do not know how much he was looking for. "
(Genesis 31:34-35)
Phew, that's just not fall for it! But the next threat is already in default ...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
First of all good again. tolerate Laban and Jacob himself. Jacob and Annex move on. the way they take even a few angels.
"1 in the morning, Laban was up early, kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them and went and came back to his place.
2 Jacob went on his way, and met him the angels of God.
3 And when he saw them, he said, "There are God's armies, and was the site Mahanaim"
(Genesis 32:1-3)
But shortly. come out messengers to warn of an impending disaster: Esau, his account of the death threat Jacob Had indeed left home, is on the way to him ...
"7 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and he also pulls you forward with four hundred men"
(Genesis 32:1-3)
James trusts his brother not only that he kills him, but also fear for his wives and children.
"12 Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am afraid of him that he did not come and smite me, the mothers with the children "
(Genesis 32:12)
Jacob leaves his family that evening and stayed all alone. He spent the entire night with a man to wrestle.
"23 and got up at night and took his two wives and two maidservants and his eleven children and moved to the ford of Jabbok
24 took her and led her across the water, hinüberkam that what he had
25 still and alone. As senior man with him until the dawn broke. "
(Genesis 32:23-25)
We do not know who has since started proceedings or why Jacob wrestles with this man at all, the later in person as God turns out ...
"26 And when he saw that he did not prevail against him, he touched the joint of his hip, and the joint of Jacob's hip was on the wrestle with it dislocated.
27 And he said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak. But he answered: I will not let you bless me, then.
28 He said: What's your name? He answered: Jacob.
29 he said. You no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed "
(Genesis 32:26-29)
Jacob true God and the only question that occurs to him is his name ...
"30 And Jacob asked him, saying: Tell me, is like you said, but He: Why do you ask what my name And he blessed him there
. 31 And Jacob called the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved ".
(Genesis 32:30-31)
God will not reveal his name though, but Jacob is a new name "Israel", which in about "persevere with God". However, he is mentioned in the Book of Genesis in future, "Jacob."
Frere Jacques
Finally it comes to meeting with Esau. But James has misjudged his brother: Esau would kill him not, but forgave him and is happy to see his brother.
"4 Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him: and they wept."
(Genesis 33:4)
invites his brother Esau and his family to visit him. You agree that, in order to ride the wake of Esau and Jacob, and follows them.
"12 And he said, Let us go away and travel, I will go with you
13 he said. to him: My Lord, you know that I'm fragile children with me, to flocks and herds, if they have a day would be an exaggeration, would die to me the whole herd
. 14 My Lord thou shalt go before his servant. I want to drive slowly behind other, can go after the cattle and the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.
15 Esau said, I will be with you but some of the people that are with me. He answered: What is it needed? Let me just find favor in my lord.
16 So the day Esau went his way again gene Seir. "
(Genesis 33:12-16)
But Jacob is not thinking. That he would follow Esau, was a lie - it takes a different path (Genesis 33:17-19). Once again he has tricked his brother. Nice guy ...
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
On the birth of Jacob's youngest son, Benjamin, Rachel dies.
"16 And they came from Beth-El. And there was still a dirt road Ephrath because Rachel gave birth.
17 and she had hard . But over the birth of the birth was so difficult, the midwife said unto her, Fear not, for this son will you have it.
a 8 Since you went out but the soul that she had to die, she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father called him Ben-Jamin '
(Genesis 35:16-18 .)
Benjamin and his eleven brothers are the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel
"23 The sons of Leah are: Ruben , the firstborn son of Jacob , Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and ;
24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin ;
25 the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali ;
26 the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asser . These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Mesopotamia. "
(Genesis 35:23-26)
The focus of the rest of the book of Genesis is shifting now to one of its sons of Jacob, that his favorite Joseph, who is from his favorite wife Rachel.
ALTER Vadda!
We also learn that Isaac, Jacob and Esau's father still lives. Although he had been lying at least 14 years before dying! This was indeed the reason for the stolen firstborn blessing and Jacob's Flight.
"27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre gene Kiryat-Arba, which is called Hebron, is Abraham and Isaac were strangers.
28 And Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old "
(Genesis 35:27-28)
GOD LOVES YOU AS HE LOVED JACOB
What we learn through the whole story about ? God
The church reformer John Calvin was of the view that God has already decided whether you get into heaven or cave -. before it is even born when one is chosen, you will go to heaven and if not , then not. And there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
If one is not one of those lucky people that God has for the Heaven has been chosen, one can not be saved by faith in Jesus (which Luther preached), not even by a right faith and good deeds (like the Catholic Church this claim). That does not necessarily
for a God that can be called in any sense of the word as "fair". However, Calvin's theory proved by many Bible stories, especially the story about Jacob and Esau.
Even before the birth of the twins God had decided that Jacob Esau will be inferior. This he announced in a clear yes. Esau never had a chance to be loved by God.
"2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? " Is not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob
3 and hate Esau and had laid his mountains and heritage to the jackals of the wilderness "
(Malachi 1:2 -. 3)
Now you might come to the objection that God is indeed all-knowing and therefore know the future. He knew even before the birth of a people, which will do this and if he goes to hell, it is his own debt. His own actions brought him condemnation and God knows, of course, always been how everything is. So it is absolutely fair that God knows when you were born, that you come to hell. However, it is
two major arguments.
First, if God knows the personal future of all people, they have no free will.
A free will would mean that one has in a situation X, the ability to act in a certain way or else. If God knows all the acts of our lives but before us, we can act only on just this way. Then there is no more decisions, we have no choice and therefore there is no "free will".
to decide who goes to hell is so arbitrary - if God is omniscient or not. Especially if he is omniscient.
Second, the Jacob / Esau story illustrates it very directly that God has chosen certain people, no matter how behave.
sum up the whole "sing together again: Esau hunts down and provides for his family and seeking thereby to fulfill the role of the firstborn. When he is exhausted from work once and probably still could not catch, he traded his inheritance for a mess of pottage. Admittedly, that was probably not very smart, but not Esau is on his limited mental capacity guilt: God has made him so. His own twin brother betrays him and his mother loves Jacob more than him.
And then dies even his beloved father, for which he has always done everything to please him. But instead of what it would be tradition, Esau gets in this hour is not the blessing of his father. Instead, he has learned that his brother has betrayed him again and his mother was involved. After all that Esau has yet big enough to forgive his brother. Jacob deceives his own
contrast, twin brother and his supposedly dying father. And when he meets God, he beat them. There should be no doubt who is the good guy in this story. But Esau was not simply chosen.
"23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two people shall be separated from thy bowels, and one people will think about the other, and the elder shall serve the younger "
(Genesis 25th : 23)
The same pitch had Isaac's older brother, Ishmael, who was not well chosen and sent by his father Abraham, therefore, never to return to the desert (Genesis 21:14) Ishmael had, as Esau, nothing. . God hates him simply wrong - irrevocably, on principle
This theology is not only represented in the Old Testament. preaching in the New Testament as Paul this position quite clearly:
" 10 not only so it is with the words, but also when Rebecca by one man, our father Isaac, was pregnant:
11 before the children were born and had done neither good nor evil , that the purpose of God would be after the election,
12 , not of works, should be "THE ELDER: but from Him who, it was said to her "Position
13 as it is written: " serve the younger Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated "
(Romans 9th: 10-13)
The God of Calvin, and the God of Paul is definitely the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. no justice. A being that creates beings capable of suffering in order to hate them and throwing them into hell, where they will be tormented forever.
Evil God Evil! Off!
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SERIES: THE BOOK OF GENESIS
Part 1: "Sun, Moon and Stars"
Part 2: "Once upon a time ..."
Part 3: "The just punishment"
Part 4: "Journey to the land of the South of the Earth"
Part 5: The Return of the Giants'
Part 6: "Fire Water"
part 7: "OPFA!"
>> Part 8: "Brother John"
Part 9: "The man and the woman"
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