Genesis 38:16a

  • A Moral Blow

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”  Genesis 38:16a  NIV Sleep with you – Okay, so we’re past the scandalous nature of this event.  We think of it religiously as if it’s about inequity, and, of course, ultimately, about the…

  • Half of the Story

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”  Genesis 38:16a  NIV Sleep with you – Of course, the Hebrew doesn’t use our modern circumlocution.  The Hebrew text reads, “let me come in to you,” perhaps a bit too graphic for our…