The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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of Isaac, and bore him Esau and Jacob. When Jacob
reached maturity, ''Reebekah said to Isaac, I am weary
of my life because of the daughters
take a wife from among the daugnters of
be of
of Heth : if Jacob
Heth, such as
these of the daughters of the land, what good shall
my life dome?'' Evidently this fond mother realized
that if her son Jacob took a wife from among the Canaanites
her life had been lived in vain. Why? **And
Isaac, ' ' startled at the thought, ' 'called Jacob and blessed
him and charged him and said unto him, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to
Padanarum, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's
father, and take thee a wife from thence of the
daughters of Daban, thy mother's brother. And may
God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and
multiply thee, that thou mayest be *'a multitude of
people."
(Gen. xxvii, 46, and Gen. xxviii, 1, 2, 3.)
If Jacob had taken a wife of the daughters of
Canaan, why could not their progeny become **a
multitude
of people?" Nearly five centuries after this Moses
described the attitude which God desired
the Israelites
to maintain toward the Canaanites, as follows: **And
when the L,ord the God shall deliver them before thee
thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them ;
thou
shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto
them: neither shalt thou make marriages with them;
thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his
daughter shalt thou take nnto thy son." (Deut. vii,
2,3.)