Welcome to the 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

Okay just for a moment I'm going to take you behind the scenes of 10 minute Bible talks or

TMBT as we call it.

When we get near the end of a series, we all get together and think and pray and talk about

what our next series should be.

And then Patrick goes through and breaks the series into little chunks and assigns them to

Tanya or Jensen or me and of course he keeps some of those chunks some of those stories

for himself. We have Patrick do it because he went to a private school and all the money his parents paid for that private education has to have a payoff of some sort, right?

Okay, so just for example, when we decided to go through Genesis to start the new year,

Patrick went through Genesis and he divvied up all the chapters and then assigned them to one of us.

And I think he should be fired for giving me Genesis chapter 34. It is a terribly dark

passage. Jacob's only daughter, Dina, is raped. There's lying, death, blaming. The Bible is many things, but one thing it's not, is boring.

We could skip this chapter, this story, but that would make us boring, and chicken. and I don't want to be boring and I don't want to be a chicken either so let's dive in

Here's the big picture of what happens in Genesis 34 and Jacob's family is living in a place called Shechem.

Dina is out walking when the city's prince, who is also named Shechem,

sees her, attacks her, and rapes her. We're not going to talk much about

sexual abuse in the few minutes that we have together today, but I want to make sure

you know that sexual abuse of any kind is a horrible evil and that this

young woman experienced something that was painful and violating.

Violating a person made in the image of God is a really big deal. I think

individuals and churches and nonprofits who help vulnerable people and in the case of

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