Saturday, May 26, 2012

Themes in Genesis: Sibling Jealousy and Hatred

There is a lot of hating going on in Genesis, and the hating is mostly toward close relatives.  While women competed to win the men in their lives by having the most babies, men sought to remove their competition by murdering them.

1.  Cain killed Abel.
2.  Esau sought to kill Jacob, so Jacob ran away to live with Leban.
3.  Leban wanted to kill Jacob when he ran away from him without letting him know about it.
4.  10 brothers wanted to kill Joseph.



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