The Truth of Genesis: The Sad Truth of Christianity and Judaism – Messianic bloodline

This is the third chapter of six of the series. Those of you that like soap operas and intrigue, this chapter is for you.

As we pointed out last time, it was forbidden for any of the children of Israel (Jacob) to marry any of the Canaanites. The Messianic bloodline was to flow from Abraham to the mother of the Messiah (Yeshua). Yehovah, the Supreme Spirit, was not going to have His human blood contaminated with Canaanite DNA, as you will later see.

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I’m guessing from the text, that Dinah, the only named daughter of Jacob, was born about a year before Joseph, who was the eleventh son, and he was born in 2068 BC. Therefore, the year of 2051 BC was a year of tribulation for Jacob. First, Reuben got “tired of waiting”, and laid with Bilhah, one of his father’s concubines. Moses does not speak of the aftermath, but he clearly avoids explaining the history of Tamar, whom I believe was the daughter of Reuben and Bilhah. Tamar was not a Canaanite, and also was not Jacob’s daughter, but a Hebrew of Jacob’s family. It’s clear that the sons of Jacob had to wait to marry their half-sisters, or nieces…, if and when they became available. Reuben later ended up marrying a half-sister, and had four sons, and perhaps two other daughters.

Simeon, Jacob’s second son, also got “tired”, and had a son named Shaul of a Canaanite woman. He later married a half-sister and had five more sons and perhaps three daughters. Levi was “late”, and finally married a niece after they moved to Goshen. Judah was “early”, and married a Canaanite whose name was Shuah, who already had a daughter. This caused certain problems, especially for Shuah, and the resultant events let the (Tamar) “cat out of the bag”. But more on that later.

After learning that Bilhah was pregnant with Reuben’s child, Jacob learns that Rachel, the wife he loved, was pregnant. Next, the story of “the coat of many colors” occurs, when Joseph is sold into slavery by his ten older brothers. Judah can’t stand to be around the family because of the acute grieving of Jacob concerning the apparent loss of Joseph, so he leaves and ends up marring Shuah. Then, a couple of months before Dinah was eighteen, when she would be given to an uncle in marriage (not to a son of Leah), she “went out to see the daughters of the land”, not escorted.

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