More lairs

Genesis 34:13 says, “And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:”  The sons of Jacob are liars?  Deceivers? The apple sure doesn’t fall far from the tree.  Why is it (so far) only gods people are the liars?  The bad evil people always seem nice.  Even god lied when he told Adan he would surely die if he ate the fruit.  The snake told him the truth.  

Defiling is bad unless it is Jacob who does it.

Genesis 34:2 says, “And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.  34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.”   Now let me get this straight.  Jacob slept with both of Laban’s daughters.  I understand they were married but he was not married to the servants each of Laban’s daughters gave to Jacob to lay with.  They basically gave him slaves who had no choice is this defilement.  How is this different from what happened to Dinah?

Jacob divides again?

Genesis 33:1 says, “And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.”  Hadn’t he already did this?  This sounds like more than two bands though.

Who is this man?

Genesis 32:24 says, “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.”  So Jacob was alone and then he wrestled a man who came from… where? Genesis 32:30 says, “And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”  Are we to believe through this very horribly written text that Jacob is wrestling god?  You’d think god would crush him with a thought.  Why would god possibly be wrestling him?  To touch his thigh so Jews wont eat the sinew?  Nobody in any culture eats sinew.  Couldn’t god have just said, “Jacob, by the way, don’t eat sinew?"

Mother? Singular?

Genesis 32:11 says, “Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.”  Doesn’t he mean 4 mothers?  At this point I am definitely finding that women and not very important to god or anyone in the bible.  How can women believe in this sexist religion?

Divides into bands?

Now you have to follow me here.  Genesis 31:17 says, “Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.”  So he fled Laban with his sons and wives and (although it doesn’t say) I am assuming his servants.  Genesis 32:6 says, “And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.”  Now Jacob's little group is beset upon by over 400 men.  Genesis 32:7 says, “Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

32:8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.”  Now let me get this straight.  Jacob divided his group of what, 20 people into two bands?  10 people make up a band?  If one band is smitten and they don’t find Jacob with them wont they continue till they find Jacob?  All would die in this situation. 

But it gets better.  Genesis 32:22 says, “And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.”  I thought he divided into two bands.  Who is in the other band?

So, they name rocks…

Genesis 31:46 says, “And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

31:47 And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.”  OK, they build a pile of rocks and then name it. That aught to seal the deal.  Especially the way Jacob lies about nearly everything.