Question: In what two ways was Sarah a relative to Abraham?
Answer: Wife and half-sister (Genesis 20:12)
Comments: Abraham married his half-sister, Sarah, a fact that does not come into play nine chapters until after the characters are introduced. Maybe the ancients realized that this little tidbit might sway the reader unfavorably against the protagonist. Clearly, the gene pool was different than the modern era and it would not have caused the genetic abnormalities that incest would today, but I am still somewhat disturbed by this. On the plus side, I relate more to Abraham as he was probably a redneck. He lived in the ancient equivalent of a mobile home (tent), his faith was “reckoned” to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6), and he married a relative. As Jeff Foxworthy once said, “You might be a redneck if your family tree doesn’t fork.”
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