Dinah (Addendum)

September 26, 2009, 3:05 pm by dc-agape.

Having thought about the passage I read earlier this morning I have realized that I missed two important points.  One deals with the number of sins that the brothers Simeon and Levi commit.  The other has to do with how YHWH responds to these sins.

I did not realize it at the time, but Simeon and Levi did commit another sin from the not yet written 10 commandments.  That sin was:

Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

By bringing trouble on to Jacob, both brothers have dishonored their father.   So that totals 4 of the 10 commandments broken, plus one the one of arrogance, plus our societies distaste for slavery!  Wow these guys are the perfect role model.  Let’s all be just like them.

What might be even scarier is how YHWH finally does respond nearly 500 years later.  Moses was born to a Levite family and all the Levites became responsible for the tabernacle.  The descendants of the man who committed 6 hideous crimes become the religious leaders of the Israeli nation.  I guess we should all begin to break the laws of God; he will reward our offspring in the future!

I have updated two pages on my major domain.  Hope you enjoy them, and maybe they will be helpful to you.

1)       I have added a new section to My Thoughts.  It is a little about how the experiment is going.

2)      I have made a list of posts by title in Genesis, found in the footer of my main page.

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