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Reuben and his brothers by Colijn de Coter, ca. 1500, fragment of a painting in the National Museum in Warsaw. In the Book of Genesis, Reuben is briefly described as having had sexual activity with Bilhah, his stepmother's maid and father's concubine in 35:22. On his deathbed, Jacob declares that Reuben "will no longer excel, for you went up ...
Bilhah (בִּלְהָה "unworried", Standard Hebrew: Bilha, Tiberian Hebrew: Bīlhā) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Genesis. [1] Genesis 29:29 describes her as Laban 's handmaiden ( שִׁפְחָה ), who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob .
Jacob's firstborn son Reuben had sex with his father's concubine Bilhah. [10] Judah, Jacob's fourth son, mistook his daughter-in-law Tamar for a prostitute while she was veiled, and had sex with her. [11] Amram married his paternal aunt Jochebed, the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. [12] However, according to the Septuagint, she was his ...
The report of Genesis 35:22 that Reuben lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it, is echoed in Genesis 49:4, when Jacob recalled the incident and deprived Reuben of the blessing of the firstborn, because he went up on Jacob's bed and defiled it.
Judah's position is further enhanced through the downfall of his older brothers: Reuben, the eldest, cedes his birthright through sexual misconduct with Jacob's concubine Bilhah (Gen. 35:22), and the bloody revenge taken by Simeon and Levi following the rape of Dinah (Gen. chap. 34) [16] disqualifies them as leaders. [17]
Reubens officially revived his alter ego at the 2007 Guys Choice Awards hosted by Spike TV and went on to headline a Broadway stage show and the 2016 Netflix movie Pee-wee's Big Holiday.
According to some commentaries, Bilhah and Zilpah are actually half-sisters of Leah and Rachel. [17] One day, Leah's firstborn son Reuben returned from the field with mandrakes for his mother. Leah had not conceived for a while, and the plant, whose roots resemble the human body, was thought to be an aid to fertility. [18]
More than 30 years ago, Rob Lowe's reputation was in the gutter — and he's better for it. Reflecting on the infamous 1988 sex tape that ground his career to a halt, Lowe said on SiriusXM's "The ...