We've all heard the expression there is nothing new under the sun. If you believe in the Bible this means that everything that happens now has happened before...
This includes everything from incest (Lot's daughters lie with him after they flee Sodom because they are afraid they won't meet any men) to rape (one of Jacob's daughters was raped when they moved to a new city).
And finally, man's inability to stay focused on one woman and be faithful to his wife is omni-present there too. The most sad "love" story for me is Jacob working seven years for Rachel with whom he was madly in love with getting drunk on his wedding night and sleeping with her sister Leah. So then he works another seven years for Rachel, the woman he really wanted. Once Leah starts bearing children and Rachel is barren she gives her handmaid to Jacob to sleep with so that he can have children, and then Leah also gives her maid to him. That's four women and one man. And count them 12 children eventually.
Really? And women are okay with that?
It makes me shake my head.
What's really sad is that women still settle for this today. Married women or single women who know a man's married but they don't mind sharing.
Should I ever get married I hope that my husband never encounters such a woman.
And I will always be on the lookout for these potential Jacobs who go along with anyone who will hop into bed with them...
*Sigh*
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