Jacob worked 7 years to marry Rachel but was given Leah. After working to marry Rachel, it turned out Rachel was barren, that she gave her maid, Bilhah to Jacob. Leah gave her maid, Zilphah to Jacob as well. Zilphah went on to bed Reubern, Jacob and Leah’s son.
Out of a betting scandal, aged Leah got to sleep with Jacob and bore Issachar and later Zebulun and a daughter called Dinah. (Rachel would finally mother Joseph and Benjamin). Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter, lost her virginity to Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country. Simeon and Levi killed all male and took all their possessions.
Later, Judah’s son Er, married Tamar who became widowed because God killed him for his wickedness. His brother Onan was given her to perpetuate his seed. Onan went in and spilled his sperm to the ground and God killed him for doing casual sex. Then Tamar tricked Judah, pretending to be a whore, getting his jewellery and sleeping with him. Judah had twins from his dead son’s wife, Phareh and Zarah. This Zarah brought his hand from the womb first, was marked, but then withdrew into the birth canal and Phareh was born first.
Joseph refused free sex from the amorous Potipher’s wife’s advances. Moses had a Midianite wife. Later, at around his 80’s, he married an Ethiopian woman, but his brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam started to murmur and God reproached them, punishing Miriam with 7 days leprosy.
God had killed over 24 000 people for fornication and adultery with the Moabites. One man found himself a Midianite whore, crept into the tent with her. A Levite, Phinehas saw this and ran into the tent and drove a spear through them, killing them instantly while they had sex. God was pleased with his revolt and stopped killing people.
God refuses rewards for sex to be brought to his house, as set in Deut 23v18: ‘Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow.’
Samson married Delilah and she betrayed him to the Philistines who cut his hair. Rahab the harlot housed Joshua’s spies and she and her family were saved. She is the ancestor of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Deut 24v5: ‘When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.’ My wife may sue some companies for the loss of ‘cheer’.
Do we consider Eve’s betrayal as a sexual affair with the serpent? My Bible does not hint that way.
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