90 Days, Days 2, 3 & 4

I'm typing these notes a few days late, but here are my most recent gleanings in my 90 day read through the whole Bible....

In Genesis 20:2 Abram lets his wife off to another man a second time.  This happened once already with Pharaoh.
20:12 It becomes clear that Abram is not lying when he claims his wife is is sister.... half-sister --- weird.

24:22 Makes a case for Nose Rings.  See, we think of them as horrid, when here they're "biblical."  I haven't seen a case for those nasty ear gauges yet.

25:1  Let's not forget that Abraham had 8 sons, not 2.

26:7 The family sin continues  through the Generations... this time Abraham's son Isaac try's to pawn his wife off as his sister to a ruler -- the same ruler (Abimalech) that already had his mom!

29:9  Interesting that woman served as "shepherdesses" at this time.  Many assume that the masculinist nature of this culture would not presume that a woman would work a field job like this...

29:28  I always thought from Sunday school that Jacob worked seven years, was forced to marry Leah, then worked another seven years, and then was able to marry his true-love Rachel.  HALF TRUTH!  Jacob married Rachel one week after marrying Leah.  He just had to work an additional 7 years.

Anti-Arian verse: 32:22-32  Jacob wrestles with this Man who he believes to be God ... definitely a reference to Jesus, the man-God.

42:33 Joseph, in order to keep up his farce to his brothers and make them think he was not Hebrew, used an interpreter the whole time.  I think it's neat how the Bible includes this subtle detail.

THOUGHTS ON GENESIS ALTOGETHER:
I am consistently surprised how sexual and violent the Old Testament is.  Genesis is definitely PG-13 in our culture, verging on Rated-R.   Take the story of Dinah, Jacob's only named daughter, for example.  Here the local king "violates" her.  Then he wants to to marry her.  So Jacob and Sons insist the whole town be circumcised (nasty....), and when they're still in their circumcision pain, Jacob's sons Levi and Simeon roll into town and slaughter every man there.  We're not in children's Sunday school anymore!  We have rape, prostitution, legitimate incest (Abram and Sarai), illegitimate incest (Lot's daughters), intended Angel molestation (or close to it), murder, theft, deceit, lying and idolatry, at the least.