[60Gunner]

If Sarah hadn't have been so impatient with God and taken matters into her own hands by convincing Abraham to impregnate her maid, none of this woulda happened in the first place.

See? That's a 'natural learning moment,' is what that is.

[mrsmel]

So true.

[Califreak]

That and remember when God told the Israelites to kill everyone and they left some alive?

Wondering if some of those were part of the problem

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If Sarah hadn't have been so impatient with God and taken matters into her own hands by convincing Abraham to impregnate her maid, none of this woulda happened in the first place.

Wow. Someone who actually understands the very start of this whole mess.

Genesis 16:9 Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”

Genesis 16:10 Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 11 The angel of the Lord said to her further,

“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.

Genesis 16:12 “He will be a wild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone, And everyone’s hand will be against him; And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”