Two wives are better than none?
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 13 21:42:55 CDT 2001
Almost forgot a bout Job.
He also had two wives.
Dinah, killed by the Devil or God, depending on how you read that crazy
book, was replaced by a second wife, by the name of Sitis--the probable
mother of the second
brood.
The names of his three daughters are significant, though not euphonious:
Jemima, the day, because of Job's prosperity; Kezia, a spice, because he
was healed, and
Karen-Happuch, plenty restored. God adorned them with great beauty, no
women
being so fair as were the daughters of Job. In the Old Testament we
often find
women praised for their beauty; but in the New Testament we find no
notice of
physical charms, not even in the Virgin Mary herself. Job gave to his
daughters an
equal inheritance with his sons. It is pleasant to see that the brothers
paid them
marked attention, and always invited them to their dinners, and that his
ten children
were reproduced just as his flocks and his herds had been.
Oh, there is a Masonic organization called the Daughter's of Job.
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