Esau reunites with Jacob. Jacob's daughter gets raped, but it's ok, cause the rapist loves her; and he's rich. Circumcisions for everyone! Death for everyone! Isaac's still alive? WTF is going on? We discuss it all.
Shechem rapes Dinah; his father offers peace to her family; EVERY male gets circumcised as part of the deal; while they're recovering from their surgery, two of Dinah's brothers kill EVERY adult male in the city; her other brothers plunder the homes and make the women and children their prey.
Wikipedia says:
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
In North America two groups of longhouses emerged: the Native American/First Nations longhouse of the tribes usually connected with the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) in the northeast, and a similarly shaped structure which arose independently among the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Sports Illustrated says:
Russian anti-doping experts and members of the country's intelligence services would also replace urine samples that were tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier. Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, who was in charge of the testing lab, estimated that as many as 100 dirty urine samples were expunged.
ThoughtCo says:
First of all, there was and is no lisp.
If you study Spanish long enough, sooner or later you'll hear a tale about Spanish King Ferdinand, who supposedly spoke with a lisp, causing Spaniards to imitate him in pronouncing the z and sometimes the c to be pronounced with the "th" sound of "thin."
Oft-repeated Story Merely an Urban Legend
The University of Texas at Dallas says:
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker is perceived to speak with a "foreign" accent. FAS is most often caused by damage to the brain caused by a stroke or traumatic brain injury. Other causes have also been reported including multiple sclerosis and conversion disorder and in some cases no clear cause has been identified.
English for Less says:
A new wealthy sector emerged during the industrial revolution. These citizens were born with a low birth rank and they were desperately seeking for a way to distinguish themselves from others. They wanted to show by speech that they were much more than simple middle class or lower middle class citizens. They started to use the prestigious non-rhotic** pronunciation in order to demonstrate their new upper-class status.
** non-rhotic pronunciation: Traditional English was largely "rhotic." Rhotic speakers pronounce the "R" sound in such words as "hard" and "winter," while non-rhotic speakers do not.
State of the Pod. State of the Union. State of the Subway. State of the NYPD. State of the Enemies.
Another recording from Rusty's sofa. Another message from Yahweh to Solomon. Another justification for murder and slavery. Another mysterious woman brought before an Israelite King.
Back to a semi-regular recording schedule. Yahweh out. Rusty's smart...according to many, many people. Solomon babbles.
In the back of an El Camino, an unlikely fusion of ancient relic and vintage automobile, the Ark of the Covenant rests - a juxtaposition of sacred and mundane. Let us weave this improbable scene...
Scott asked A.I. to generate some images and a story about the Ark of The Covenant in the back of an El Camino. Read the fascinating A.I.-generated story behind this A.I.-generated image.
"Why didn't you cry out?" is a question women hear after having suffered a sexual assault. We examine the origin for this attitude.
FULL DISCLOSURE: Read the article we're talking about at Free Thought Now!
We discuss a bill to erect the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom that was voted through the Texas Senate chamber and is on its way to becoming law.
FULL DISCLOSURE: Read the article we're talking about at Freedom From Religion Foundation
...the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house..."Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse with him." "No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Since this man is my guest, do not do this vile thing. Here are my virgin daughter and his concubine...Ravish them and do whatever you want to them, but against this man do not do such a vile thing." ...They wantonly raped her and abused her all through the night until the morning...
...not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there..."Go, put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword, including the women and the little ones...they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins...when the young women of Shiloh come out to dance...come out of the vineyards and...carry off a wife...and go to the land of Benjamin
Then the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men of the town, took their spoil, and gave the festal garments to those who had explained the riddle.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Although you are barren, having borne no children, you shall conceive and bear a son. Now be careful not to drink wine or strong drink or to eat anything unclean, for you shall conceive and bear a son.
When they brought the kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the Israelites and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks
Dictionary.com says dismantle means: To strip of furnishings or equipment. Since the mantle "stolen" by Achan is the first reference to stripped furnishings, it only stands to reason that "dismantle" would be chosen as the word to mean such a thing.
Wikipedia says:
...Approximately 1 in 3,600 Ashkenazi Jews at birth are affected... ...Carriers of a single Tay–Sachs allele are typically normal. It has been hypothesized that being a carrier may confer protection from tuberculosis, explaining the persistence of the allele in certain populations...
Wikipedia says:
The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States. ... It is public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is known for land speed records at the Bonneville Speedway. Access to the Flats is open to the public.
NASA says:
Although Webb images are infrared, they can be translated by computer into a visible picture. Additionally Webb can see orange and red visible light.
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