Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible
in a year.
Yesterday we heard about how God delivered Jacob from the hands of his uncle Laban and
from the hands of his brother Esau and how God reconciled him.
And we also heard about how God prospered Jacob and gave him a lot of possessions and
many sons and he actually had one daughter, her name was Dina.
And today we're going to hear a little bit more about her and we're also going to hear
about Benjamin, Jacob's last son from Rachel.
Alright, let's begin.
Today's reading is from Genesis chapters 34 to 36.
Chapter 34.
Now Dina, the daughter of Leah, whom she had born to Jacob, went out to see the daughters
of the land.
And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hevite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her
and lay with her and violated her.
His soul was strongly attracted to Dina, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young
woman and spoke kindly to the young woman.
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor saying, get me this young woman as a wife.
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dina his daughter.
Now his sons were with his livestock in the field.
So Jacob held his peace until they came.
Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him.
And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved
and very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter,
a thing which ought not to be done.
But Hamor spoke with them saying, the soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter.
Please give her to him as a wife and make marriages with us.
Give your daughters to us and take our daughters to yourselves, so you shall dwell with us
and the land shall be before you.
Dwell and trade in it and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.
Then Shechem said to her father and her brothers, let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever
you say to me I will give.
Ask me ever so much dowry and gift and I will give according to what you say to me, but
give me the young woman as a wife.
But the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father and spoke deceitfully because
he had defiled Dina their sister.
And they said to them, we cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised,
for that would be a reproach to us.
But on this condition we will consent to you.
If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised, then we will give our
daughters to you and we will take your daughters to us and we will dwell with you and we will
become one people.
But if you will not heed us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be gone.
And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son, so the young man did not delay
to do the thing because he delighted in Jacob's daughter.
He was more honorable than all the household of his father.
And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city and spoke with the men
of their city saying, these men are at peace with us, therefore let them dwell in the land
and trade in it, for indeed the land is large enough for them.
Let us take their daughters to us as wives and let us give them our daughters.
Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us, to be one people.
If every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised, will not their livestock,
their property and every animal of theirs be ours?
Only let us consent to them and they will dwell with us.
And all who went out of the gate of his city heeded Hamor and Shechem his son.
Every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Now it came to pass on the third day when they were in pain that two of the sons of
Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the
city and killed all the males.
And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword and took Dinah
from Shechem's house and went out.
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because their sister had
been defiled.
They took their sheep, their oxen and their donkeys, what was in the city and what was
in the field.
And all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives they took captive and they
plundered even all that was in the houses.
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, you have troubled me by making me obnoxious among the
inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
And since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me.
I shall be destroyed, my household and I.
But they said, should he treat our sister like a harlot?
Chapter 35.
Then God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make an altar there to
God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.
And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, put away the foreign gods
that are among you, purify yourselves and change your garments.
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered
me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which
were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the Terabinth tree which was by Shechem.
And they journeyed and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them,
and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
So Jacob came to Luz, that is Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people
who were with him, and he built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there
God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.
Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the Terabinth
tree, so the name of it was called Alon Bakuth.
Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan Aram and blessed him, and God
said to him, your name is Jacob, your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel
shall be your name.
So he called his name Israel.
Also God said to him, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply, a nation and a company
of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you, and to your descendants after
you, I give this land.
Then God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, a pillar of stone, and
he poured the drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it, and Jacob called the name
of the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrathah,
Rachel labored in childbirth, and it happened when Israel dwelt in that land that Reuben
went and lay with Bela.
His father's concubine and Israel heard about it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
The sons of Bela, Rachel's maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali.
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher.
These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre or Kirjas Arba, that is Hebron, where Abraham
and Isaac had dwelt.
Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years, so Isaac breathed his last and
died and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days, and his sons Isa and
Jacob buried him.
Chapter 36
Now this is the genealogy of Isa who is Edom.
Isa took his wives from the daughters of Canaan.
Adah the daughter of Elan the Hittite, Aholibama the daughter of Anna, the daughter of Zibia
and the Hivite, and Basimat, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebuchadnezzar.
And Ahadah bore Eliphaz to Isa, and Basimat bore Raoel, and Aholibama bore Jehosh, Jalam
and Korah.
These were the sons of Isa who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
Then Isa took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the persons of his household, his
cattle and all his animals, and all his goods which he had gained in the land of Canaan,
and went to a country away from the presence of his brother Jacob, for their possessions
were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were strangers could
not support them because of their livestock.
So Isa dwelt in Mount Seir.
Isa is Edom.
And this is the genealogy of Isa the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.
These were the names of Isa's sons.
Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Isa, and Raoel the son of Basimat the wife of Isa.
And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zefu, Gattam, and Kinaz.
Now Temna was the concubine of Eliphaz Isa's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.
These were the sons of Adah Isa's wife.
These were the sons of Raoel, Nahath, Zehra, Shama, and Meza.
These were the sons of Basimat Isa's wife.
These were the sons of Aholi-Bama Isa's wife, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Zibian.
And she bore to Isa, Jeosh, Jalam, and Korah.
These were the chiefs of the sons of Isa.
The sons of Eliphaz, the first born son of Isa, were chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zefu,
and chief Kinaz.
Chief Korah, chief Gattam, and chief Amalek.
These were the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom.
They were the sons of Adah.
These were the sons of Raoel, Isa's son, chief Nahath, chief Zehra, chief Shama, and
chief Meza.
These were the chiefs of Raoel in the land of Edom.
These were the sons of Basimat, Isa's wife.
And these were the sons of Aholi-Bama, Isa's wife, chief Jeosh, chief Jalam, and chief
Korah.
These were the chiefs who descended from Aholi-Bama, Isa's wife, the daughter of Ana.
These were the sons of Isa, who is Edom.
And these were the chiefs.
These were the sons of Seir, the Horite, who inhabited the land.
Lotan, Shobel, Zibian, Ana, Dishon, Ezra, and Dishan.
These were the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.
And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemem.
Lotan's sister was Timna.
These were the sons of Shobel, Alvan, Manahath, Ibal, Shefu, and Unam.
These were the sons of Zibian, both Aja and Ana.
This was the Ana who found the water in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his
father Zibian.
These were the children of Ana, Dishon, and Aholi-Bama, the daughter of Ana.
These were the sons of Dishon, Hemdan, Ishban, Ithran, and Shiran.
These were the sons of Ezra, Belan, Zaafan, and Akan.
These were the sons of Dishan, Uuz, and Aran.
These were the chiefs of the Horites, chief Lotan, chief Shobel, chief Zibian, chief Ana,
chief Dishon, chief Ezra, and chief Dishan.
These were the chiefs of the Horites according to the chiefs in the land of Seir.
Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over
the children of Israel.
Bela, the son of Beor, reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinaba.
And when Bela died, Jobab, the son of Zerah, of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temnites reigned in his place.
And when Husham died, Hadad, the son of Bidad, who attacked Midian in the field of Moab,
reigned in his place.
And the name of his city was Avith.
When Hadad died, Samla of Masreka reigned in his place.
And when Samla died, Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his place.
When Saul died, Baal-Hanan, the son of Acbor, reigned in his place.
And when Baal-Hanan, the son of Acbor, died, Hadar reigned in his place.
And the name of the city was Pow.
His wife's name was Mehitabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mizahab.
And these were the names of the chiefs of Esau according to their families and their
places by their names.
Chief Timna, chief Alva, chief Jatayt, chief Aholibama, chief Ela, chief Pinon, chief Kinaz,
chief Timan, chief Mibzar, chief Magdiel, and chief Iram.
These were the chiefs of Edom according to their dwelling places in the land of their
possession.
Esau was the father of the Edomites.
I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you
again tomorrow to continue on our journey.
God bless you and have a great day.