Entrusting the Word

Genesis - Dinah, Bethel, Esau Chapter 34-36


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Genesis 34, like Genesis 26, constitutes something of a digression in the Jacob narrative. These two digressions appear near the beginning and end of the narrative… The narrator of Genesis is concerned with the Abrahamic Covenant, a feature of which concerns the call of Abraham’s people to be a blessing to the nations. Both Genesis 26 and Genesis 34 concern how the people of Abraham interact with the nations. Both show that a patriarch mistreated a woman: Isaac endangered his wife by presenting her as his sister, and Jacob does nothing about the rape of his daughter, Dinah.

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