Monday, April 24, 2006
God's Chosen (Messed-Up) People (PART III)
Reuben
"Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it." (Genesis 35:22 NIV)
Judah
"When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law [Judah] is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,' she took off her widow's clothes [for God had killed Judah's sons, that is, Tamar's husbands Er and Onan], covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. ... When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' ... So he ... slept with her, and she became pregnant by him." (Genesis 38:13-16, 18c)
"Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it." (Genesis 35:22 NIV)
Judah
"When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law [Judah] is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,' she took off her widow's clothes [for God had killed Judah's sons, that is, Tamar's husbands Er and Onan], covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. ... When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' ... So he ... slept with her, and she became pregnant by him." (Genesis 38:13-16, 18c)
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