The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 10, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker
to your heart. The Topic today
is: "The Violation of Dinah". The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 127 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 83. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---Dr. Doukhan
outlines the problems with the violation of Dinah and his sons reaction to it. ---Jacob wanted
to seek peace with everyone around him. ---He settled
in Shalem meaning peace/safely. ---Despite the
trouble of the land Jacob was more concerned that the countermeasures of his
sons would cause the Canaanites to want to kill him and his immediate family
(Genesis 34:30) ---Dr. Doukhan
felt that the "old man of sin" surfaced up on the human nature of
Jacob. ---A number of
wrong people got together to construct the outcome of this chapter. ---Dinah should
not have gone out of her father's house to look for the daughters of the
Canaanites, Amorites. It is like Eve wandering away from Adam. ---Where are
her brothers? She passed them in the field. ---Hamor could
not humble her before he spoke to the family (Genesis 34:2). ---The solution
of the sons of Jacob? Be baptized and then you marry. But circumcision involved
also a heart change to be always remembered and cultivated. ---Shechem and
his friends wanted circumcision with alterior motives (Genesis 34:23). Gain and
greediness. A "take over" of control shadow in the relationship. ---Jacob was
"grief and abhorence ...regarded their bloody deed" EGW in PP, 205. ---Also the
Egyptians had circumcision (Keil Commentary on Genesis 1885: 314). The murder
was by Simeon and Levi but the plundering by the rest. Keil felt all of them
did. Delitzsch felt Simeon, Levi and Reuben were excluded "they went out".
---No says Keil
to Delitzsch, this is not out of town. It is just out of the house. Joseph
would not have been included in this act. He was only 5 years old. Too young.