Monday, June 24, 2013

13th Zerah: I Still Do Believe That I am a Zerahite

As far as my thinking that I am a Zerahite, that much is affirmative.  I belong to the Haplogroup of what I believe to be Esau's, where Zerah is a son of Reuel.  That would be Haplotype I.  The word Zerah comes up in the Torah several times.  In Numbers 26, the Zerahites are mentioned as a son of Reuben, a son and tribe of Israel who lost the blessing.  That much is clear to me.  Edom committed idolatry, and so did I, but once I conceived that I had, I refused to let myself worship, and considered the idol to be horrible, and that I committed idolatry was a terrible thing, but you see, that incident helped me know right from wrong.  That the Zerahites are listed as sons of Reuben, simply to me indicates that the tribe of Reuben adopted me, while I had lost the blessing in my college years.

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