THE BEGINNING

Episode 2

Numerous years passed. Noah's children had bunches of kids. Also their kids grew up and had more youngsters. Before long there were many individuals on the earth.

One of these people was an incredible grandson of Noah named Nimʹrod. He was a terrible man who chased and killed the two creatures and men. Nimʹrod likewise made himself a ruler to run over others. God would rather avoid Nimʹrod.

The pinnacle of Babel

Every one individuals around then communicated in one language. Nimʹrod needed to hold them generally together with the goal that he could run them. So do you have at least some idea what he did? He advised individuals to assemble a city and a major pinnacle in it.

Jehovah God was not satisfied with this structure. God needed individuals to move out and experience all around the earth. Be that as it may, individuals said: 'Please! We should construct a city and a pinnacle so high that its top will venture out of sight. Then, at that point, we will be well known!' individuals needed distinction for themselves, not so much for God.

So God made individuals quit building the pinnacle. Do you have at least some idea how he got it done? By out of nowhere making individuals communicate in various dialects, rather than only one. No longer did the developers comprehend each other. For this reason their city came to be called Baʹbel, or Babylon, signifying "Disarray."

Individuals currently started to get away from Baʹbel. Gatherings of people who communicated in a similar language went to live respectively in different pieces of the earth. ONE of the spots where individuals went to reside after the Flood was called Ur. It turned into a significant city for certain decent homes in it. Be that as it may, individuals there revered bogus divine beings. That was the manner in which they did in Baʹbel as well. Individuals in Ur and Baʹbel dislike Noah and his child Shem, who continued to serve Jehovah.

At long last, 350 years after the flood, reliable Noah passed on. It was only two years after the fact that the man you find in this image was conceived. He was an exceptionally unique individual to God. His name was Abraham. He lived with his family around there of Ur.

On one occasion Jehovah told Abraham: 'Leave Ur and your family members, and go to a country I will show you.' Did Abraham comply with God and leave behind every one of the solaces of Ur? Indeed, he did. What's more it was on the grounds that Abraham generally complied with God that he came to be known as God's companion.

A portion of Abraham's family obliged him when he left Ur. His dad Teʹrah did. So did his nephew Lot. What's more, obviously, Abraham's significant other Sarah went as well. In time they generally showed up at a spot called Haʹran, where Teʹrah passed on. They were far away from Ur.

Inevitably Abraham and his family left Haʹran and came to the land called Caʹnaan. There Jehovah said: 'This is the land that I will provide for your kids.' Abraham remained in Caʹnaan and lived in tents.

God started to help Abraham so he came to have incredible herds of sheep and different creatures and many workers. Yet, he and Sarah didn't have any offspring of their own.

When Abraham was 99 years of age, Jehovah said: 'I guarantee that you will become father to numerous countries of individuals.' But how is it that this could occur, since Abraham and Sarah were presently too old to even think about having a kid? Keep in mind, God guaranteed them that they would have a child. Yet, that appeared to be inconceivable, in light of the fact that Abraham and Sarah were so old. Abraham, notwithstanding, accepted that God could do what appeared to be unimaginable. So what was the deal?

After God made his guarantee, an entire year passed. Then, at that point, when Abraham was 100 years of age and Sarah was 90 years of age, they had a child kid named Isaac. God had stayed true to his obligation!

Yet, when Isaac had become older, Jehovah tried Abraham's confidence. He called: 'Abraham!' And Abraham replied: 'Here I am!' Then God said: 'Take your child, your main child, Isaac, and go to a mountain that I will show you. There murder your child and proposition him up as a penance.'

How tragic those words made Abraham, since Abraham cherished his child without question. Also recall, God had guaranteed that Abraham's youngsters would live in the place where there is Caʹnaan. However, how is it that that could occur assuming Isaac were dead? Abraham didn't see, yet he complied with God.

For he got to the mountain, Abraham tied up Isaac and set him on the raised area that he constructed. Then, at that point, he took out the blade to murder his child. Yet, exactly at that point God's holy messenger called: 'Abraham, Abraham!' And Abraham replied: 'Here I am!'

'Try not to hurt the kid or do anything to him,' God said. 'Presently I realize that you have confidence in me, since you have not kept down your child, your just one, from me.'

What extraordinary confidence Abraham had in God! He accepted that the sky was the limit for Jehovah, and that Jehovah might raise Isaac from the dead. Be that as it may, it was not actually God's will for Abraham to kill Isaac. So God made a sheep get found out in a few close by brambles, and he advised Abraham to forfeit it rather than his child. Part and his family lived respectively with Abraham in the place where there is Caʹnaan. On one occasion Abraham said to Lot: 'There isn't land enough here for every one of our creatures. If it's not too much trouble, let us isolated. On the off chance that you go one way, I will go the other.'

Part investigated the land. He saw an exceptionally pleasant piece of the country that had water and a ton of good grass for his creatures. This was the District of the Jordan. So Lot moved his family and creatures there. They at long last made their home in the city of Sodʹom.

Individuals of Sodʹom were extremely terrible. This resentful Lot, since he was a decent man. God was disturbed as well. At long last, God sent two holy messengers to caution Lot that he planned to obliterate Sodʹom and the close by city of Go·morʹrah on account of their disagreeableness.

The heavenly messengers told Lot: 'Rush! Take your better half and your two girls and leave!' Lot and his family were a little delayed in going, thus the holy messengers took them by the hand and drove them out of the city. Then, at that point, one of the heavenly messengers said: 'Run for your lives! Try not to think back. Rush to the slopes, so you will not be killed.'

Part and his girls gaze directly ahead as they escape from Sodom

Part and his little girls complied and fled from Sodʹom. They didn't stop briefly, and they didn't think back. In any case, Lot's significant other rebelled. After they had gone some separation from Sodʹom, she paused and thought back. Then, at that point, Lot's significant other turned into a mainstay of salt.

We can gain a decent illustration from this. It shows us that God saves the individuals who submit to him, however the people who don't comply with him will lose their lives. Isaac's dad Abraham needed to get a decent spouse for his child. He didn't need Isaac to wed one of the ladies in Caʹnaan, on the grounds that these individuals venerated bogus divine beings. So Abraham called his worker and said: 'I need you to return to where my family members reside in Haʹran and get a spouse for my child Isaac.'

Immediately Abraham's worker took ten camels and made the long outing. At the point when he got close to where Abraham's family members resided, he halted at a well. It was late in the early evening, when the ladies of the city would come to get water from the well. So Abraham's worker said a supplication to Jehovah: 'May the lady that gets a few water for myself and the camels be the one that you decide to be the spouse of Isaac.'

Before long Re·bekʹah went along to get some water. Whenever the worker asked her for a beverage, she gave him one. Then, at that point, she proceeded to get sufficient water for every one of the parched camels. That was difficult work since camels drink loads of water.

Whenever Re·bekʹah wrapped up doing this, Abraham's worker requested her the name from her dad. He additionally inquired as to whether he could remain for the time being at their home. She said: 'My dad is Be·thuʹel, and there is space for you to remain with us.' Abraham's worker realized that Be·thuʹel was the child of Abraham's sibling Naʹhor. So he stooped down and said thanks to Jehovah for driving him to Abraham's family members.

That evening Abraham's worker explained to Be·thuʹel and Re·bekʹah's sibling Laʹban why he had come. The two of them concurred that Re·bekʹah could go with him and wed Isaac. How treated say when she was inquired? She said, 'OK,' she needed to go. So the extremely following day they got on the camels and started the long excursion back to Caʹnaan.

At the point when they showed up, it was evening time. Re·bekʹah saw a man strolling in the field. It was Isaac. He was delighted to see Re·bekʹah. His mom Sarah had kicked the bucket only three years prior, and he was as yet tragic with regards to this. In any case, presently Isaac came to adore Re·bekʹah without a doubt, and he was blissful once more. Eʹsau and Jacob were the twin children of Isaac and Re·bekʹah. The dad, Isaac, loved Eʹsau a ton, since he was a decent tracker and would bring back nourishment for the family to eat. Be that as it may, Re·bekʹah cherished Jacob most, in light of the fact that he was a tranquil, quiet kid.

Youthful Esau plans to shoot utilizing his bow and bolt

Granddad Abraham was as yet alive, and we can simply envision how Jacob jumped at the chance to stand by listening to him talk regarding Jehovah. Abraham at long last kicked the bucket at 175 years old, when the twins were 15 years of age.

At the point when Eʹsau was 40 years of age he wedded two ladies from the place where there is Caʹnaan. This made Isaac and Re·bekʹah exceptionally miserable, on the grounds that these ladies didn't venerate Jehovah.

Then, at that point, on one occasion something happened that drove Eʹsau exceptionally mad with his sibling Jacob. The opportunity arrived when Isaac was to give a gift to his more seasoned child. Since Eʹsau was more seasoned than Jacob, Eʹsau expected to get this gift. Yet, Eʹsau had prior offered the option to get the gift to Jacob. Likewise, when the two young men were conceived God had said that Jacob would get the gift. What's more this occurred. Isaac gave the gift to his child Jacob.

Afterward, when Eʹsau found out with regards to this he ended up being furious with Jacob. He was furious to the point that he said he planned to kill Jacob. At the point when Re·bekʹah found out about this, she was extremely stressed. So she told her significant other Isaac: 'It will be simply horrendous assuming that Jacob additionally weds one of these ladies of Caʹnaan.'

At that Isaac called his child Jacob and told him: 'Don't wed a lady from Caʹnaan. Go rather to the place of your granddad Be·thuʹel in Haʹran. Wed one of the little girls of his child Laʹban.'

Jacob paid attention to his dad, and immediately started his long outing to where his family members resided in Haʹran. Subsequent to voyaging numerous days, Jacob met them by a well. They were dealing with their sheep. Jacob inquired: 'Where are you from?'

'Haʹran,' they said.

'Do you know Laʹban?' Jacob inquired.

'Indeed,' they replied. 'See, here comes his girl Rachel with his rush of sheep. At the point when Jacob saw Rachel with his uncle Laʹban's sheep, he proceeded to move the stone away from the well so the sheep could drink. Then, at that point, Jacob kissed Rachel and told her what his identity was. She was extremely energized, and she returned home and told her dad Laʹban.

Laʹban was extremely glad to have Jacob stay with him. Also when Jacob requested to wed Rachel, Laʹban was happy. Nonetheless, he requested that Jacob work in his field seven years for Rachel. Since he cherished Rachel such a lot of Jacob did this. In any case, when the opportunity arrived for the marriage, do you have any idea what was the deal?

Laʹban gave his more seasoned girl Leʹah to Jacob rather than Rachel. Whenever Jacob consented to work for Laʹban seven additional years, Laʹban likewise gave him Rachel as his better half. In those times God permitted men to have more than one spouse. However, presently, as the Bible shows, a man ought to have just a single spouse. Leʹah brought forth Reuʹben, Simʹe·on, Leʹvi and Judah. At the point when Rachel saw that she was not having any kids, she was extremely dismal. So she gave her maidservant Bilʹhah to Jacob, and Bilʹhah had two children named Dan and Naphʹta·li. Then, at that point, Leʹah additionally gave her maidservant Zilʹpah to Jacob, and Zilʹpah brought forth Gad and Ashʹer. Leʹah at last had two additional children, Isʹsa·char and Zebʹu·lun.

Finally Rachel had the option to have a kid. She named him Joseph. Later we will gain tons of useful knowledge more with regards to Joseph, since he turned into a big cheese. These were the 11 children that were brought into the world to Jacob when he lived with Rachel's dad Laʹban.

Jacob additionally had a few little girls, however the Bible gives the name of just one of them. Her name was Diʹnah.

The opportunity arrived when Jacob chose to leave Laʹban and return to Caʹnaan. So he assembled his large family and his extraordinary groups of sheep and crowds of steers, and started the long outing.

After Jacob and his family had been back in Caʹnaan for some time, Rachel brought forth another child. It happened when they were out traveling. Rachel struggled, and she at last passed on while conceiving an offspring. In any case, the little child kid was OK. Jacob named him Benjamin.

We need to recollect the names of the 12 children of Jacob on the grounds that the entire country of Israel came from them. Truth be told, the 12 clans of Israel are named after 10 children of Jacob and two children of Joseph. Isaac lived for a long time after every one of these young men were conceived, and it more likely than not fulfilled him to have such countless grandsons. Be that as it may, we should see what befell his granddaughter Diʹnah. She will see a portion of the young ladies who live in the place where there is Caʹnaan. Could her dad Jacob be cheerful regarding this? To assist with responding to this inquiry, attempt to recall Abraham and Isaac's opinion on the ladies in Caʹnaan.

Three young ladies of the place that is known for Canaan

Did Abraham need his child Isaac to wed a young lady from Caʹnaan? No, he didn't. Did Isaac and Re·bekʹah need their child Jacob to wed a Caʹnaan·ite young lady? No, they didn't. Do you have any idea why?

It was on the grounds that these individuals in Caʹnaan adored bogus divine beings. They were bad individuals to have as married couples, and they weren't great individuals to have as dear companions. So we should rest assured that Jacob wouldn't be satisfied that his little girl was befriending these Caʹnaan·ite young ladies.

Sufficiently sure, Diʹnah caused problems. Would you be able to see that Caʹnaan·ite man in the image who is checking Diʹnah out? He is Sheʹchem. On one occasion when Diʹnah came on a visit, Sheʹchem took Diʹnah and constrained her to rests with him. This wasn't right, on the grounds that main wedded people should rests together. This terrible thing that Sheʹchem did to Diʹnah prompted significantly more difficulty.

Whenever Diʹnah's siblings found out about what had occurred, they were exceptionally irate. Two of them, Simʹe·on and Leʹvi, were irate to such an extent that they took blades and went into the city and got the men off guard. They and their siblings killed Sheʹchem and the wide range of various men. Jacob was furious on the grounds that his children did this awful thing.

How did this inconvenience begin? It was on the grounds that Diʹnah befriended individuals who didn't comply with God's regulations. We won't have any desire to make such companions, will we?