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Implications of Melchizedek

Verifyveritas76 said:
No. Bilhah was Rachel’s handmaiden and the mother of several of Jacobs children. She was the one that Reuben lost the birthright for sleeping with her
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Yeah but Jacob couldn't have gone into her after Rachael's death because her children would have to be older than Joseph and Benjamin, Rachael's children.
 
The very first verse of that Jasher passage you quoted said that after Rachael's death Jacob went into Bihah. But Dan and Naphtali, Jacob's sons through Bihah, are older than Joseph and Benjamin, Jacob's sons through Racheal thus and therefore Jacob had to go in to Bilhah before Rachel died.

Unless the passage is just saying that he moved in with her after Rachel died but had been sleeping with her the whole time.
 
ZecAustin said:
Unless the passage is just saying that he moved in with her after Rachel died but had been sleeping with her the whole time.
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That’s what I get from it. That Reuben is upset that Jacob prefers a concubine over a wife who happens to be Reuben’s mother.

Several chapters previous, it gives the birth order and mother of each of Jacobs children. Many chapters later it gives you the sons wives names and their children including Benjamin who has two wives
 
Verifyveritas76 said:
That’s what I get from it. That Reuben is upset that Jacob prefers a concubine over a wife who happens to be Reuben’s mother.

Several chapters previous, it gives the birth order and mother of each of Jacobs children. Many chapters later it gives you the sons wives names and their children including Benjamin who has two wives
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That’s how I perceived it
 
I concur with VV's reading of it. Remember, the mothers were somewhat jealous over Jacob's attention and the children were especially prone to extreme jealousy (i.e. the selling Joseph into slavery incident).
 
Something from the Epistle of Barnabas

Barnabas 18:1
But let us pass on to another lesson and teaching. There are two
ways of teaching and of power, the one of light and the other of
darkness; and there is a great difference between the two ways. For
on the one are stationed the light giving angels of God, on the other
the angels of Satan.

Barnabas 18:2
And the one is the Lord from all eternity and unto all eternity,
whereas the other is Lord of the season of iniquity that now is.
 
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