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Abraham and his wife Sarah are promised a son. It's taking a long time so she has Abraham impregnate her handmaid, Hagar. Hagar has a son called Ishmael. But eventually Sarah has her own son, Isaac, and casts Hagar and Ishmael out into the wilderness.

Isaac, the favoured younger son, marries Rebekkah, and has two sons. He favours the older son, Essau. Rebekah favours the younger son, Jacob. She tricks Isaac into making Jacob his heir instead of his favourite son.

Jacob falls in love with a woman but is tricked into marrying her older sister first. He ends up marrying both of them and having 12 sons with 4 women (his wives and their handmaids) and he favours the youngest two because they're the sons of the wife he loves. The older sons sell the second youngest into slavery because they're mad dad favours him.

I guess the moral is parents shouldn't play favourites

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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I couldn't get over Abraham repeatedly trying to get cucked and god cockblocking it by telling the other party in a dream every single time. I know it happens at least twice and I think three. He just kept tryin'!

Somebody told me they found the Bible boring one time and I was like that's literally the one single thing it's not. Telenovelas have nothing on that shit. And that's in the very first book. We haven't even got anywhere near the interracial gangbang snuff porn yet!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Depends on the part of the Bible. The long descriptions of the temple are boring (unless you're really into architecture) but the stories are interesting