Today we begin Genesis Chapter 35. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Beit-El and live there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled ‘Esau your brother.”-Genesis 35:1 I’m sure anybody who […]

Did God call Jacob to go to Shechem? Absolutely not! Okay, technically it’s in the promised land. But it’s not where God called Jacob to go. He was supposed to travel to Hebron. And as we have already seen, in the final analysis, this “partial obedience” resulted in the rape of his daughter and the […]

But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me trouble by making me stink in the opinion of the local inhabitants, the Kena‘ani and the P’rizi. Since I don’t have many people, they’ll align themselves together against me and attack me; and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”–Genesis 34:30 So King […]

“Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him just as Jacob’s sons were coming in from the field. When they heard what had happened, the men were saddened and were very angry at the outrage this man had committed against Isra’el by raping Jacob’s daughter, something that is simply not done.“-Genesis […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 34. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Bible, click here. “One time Dinah the daughter of Le’ah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the local girls; and Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the local ruler, saw her, grabbed her, […]