Some passages of Scripture are harder to read than others. Some of the most difficult ones have to do with the ugliness and destructiveness of sin. Scripture, however, does not downplay or sanitize sin’s devastation. Here we see the effects of Jacob not keeping his vow to return to Bethel. His children, particularly his teenage daughter, become enamored with Shechem’s city life. Foolishly going alone into the city for an adventure she is seized by a prominent citizen, raped, and defiled. Her brothers want retribution, and they want somehow to remove her uncleanness. But the remedy they offer is blasphemous. How are we made clean? How can sin be paid for and how can the victims of sin find healing? Only through the means God has provided – which is pointed toward even in the very sin of Jacob’s sons.
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