10/4/2018
After Jacob had sent time relayed presents to Esau to appease him; they finally met and Esau was himself very wealthy and forgiving to Jacob. He invited Jacob back to his home but Jacob didn't think all the herds and children would be able to go on without rest and he settled at Succoth for the time being, where he built himself a camp. Layer he arrived safely at Shechem, in Canaan, and bought the land just outside the city, from the family of Hamor. One day Leah's daughter Dinah went to visit some of the local girls. When Shechem, king of Hamor's son, saw her, he wanted her and raped her. Hamor told Jacob that his son loved Dinah and would do anything Jacob desired to let them marry. Dinah's brothers were mortified by what had happened so they planned revenge by telling Shechem he could marry Dinah if he and all his men got circumcised. They agreed to this and three days after they'd all been circumcised, when they were still sore and sensitive to every move, Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, entered the city with their swords and slaughtered every man there, taking their flocks, women and possessions in retribution for what was done to Dinah. Jacob was not happy about their actions because he accused them of making his people stink in the sight of the Perizzites and Canaanites. He feared that they would be crushed by so many more of them. So God now told Jacob to move back to Bethel where he had seen the stairway to Heaven.
Now I'm not a man and can't imagine what a circumcision in a fully grown man would feel like, but I bet it's pretty painful. So it was quite a dastardly thing to ask, but then so is rape! C'est la vie as they say in France.
Bye for now
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