Hey, check out the name in Genesis 36: 10-11.....ELIPHAZ.....remember him from Job?????? Perhaps this is why we read Job when we did....that'll teach me to skim some anticipately boring geneology....and for your reference....Jacob's children (other than poor Dinah) become the 12 tribes of Isreal which will become very important:
Jacob m Zilpah (Leah's maidservant)
Gad
Asher
Jacob m Leah
Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
Dinah
Jacob m Rachel
Joseph
Benjamin
Jacob m Bilhah (Rachel's maidservant)
Dan
Naphtali
Look what comes up from the depths of the sea.
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Joseph must have been very special to Jacob. Even though he was the 11th child, he was the first of Rachel, which he loved so much....his first wife. Being the baby of all the kids, I am sure Joseph caught a lot of aggravation from the older brothers. And I am sure he aggravated them also....that is what kids do. But to be obviously the favorite, like Jacob must have treated him.....that had to bother the older brothers. My sister used to annoy me to no ends of the earth but I never went to this extreme. I guess at times, if I could have, I probably would have sold her off......hehehehe....
ReplyDeleteI hope to hear more about Joseph and these brothers get in trouble for their actions........