Genesis 35:22

  • Inside View

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.  Genesis 37:21 NIV   Tried to rescue – Jonathan Sacks makes an interesting comment about the literal Hebrew in this verse:   It is at this point that the Torah does something it does nowhere else: It makes a statement…

  • The Loud Silence

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    While Israel stayed in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel heard. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve in number. Genesis 35:22 New JPS Now – Dr. Shani Tzoref’s article, “Did Rueben Lie with Bilhah?”[1] points out that in this verse there is an extra letter, a Pey,…