Q&A Books/Genesis Truth Boosters/Genesis 30Chapter 30Genesis 3010questionsQ1.How could Rachel get credit for a child that wasn’t hers? How does it make sense for her to claim Bilhah’s baby as her own? Isn’t that a strange way of thinking about family?Q2.Did the Bible really support the practice of making female servants into concubines just because a wife couldn’t have children? It sounds like these women were treated as property, so how does this align with a good and just God?Q3.What’s with the mandrake plants in the Bible? Why would they be considered significant or special, especially in terms of fertility? Isn’t that just a superstition?Q4.Will mandrakes work? Did Rachel conceive because of the mandrakes? Isn’t it possible that these plants actually worked, considering she finally had a child after seeking them out?Q5.Did God actually reward Leah’s behaviour here? Or was she just misguided and seeing God’s hand in things that were just happening naturally?Q6.What does it mean that God ‘remembered’ Rachel? Doesn’t God already know everything? Why does it say He ‘remembered’ her?Q7.What exactly was divination, and if people in the Old Testament sometimes practiced it, why was it later considered wrong? Wasn’t divination just another way to understand God’s will?Q8.Why did Jacob ask for the speckled, spotted, and dark-colored animals as his wages? Was there a particular reason he chose those over the white ones, or was he trying to gain an advantage?Q9.Why did Laban put so much distance between himself and Jacob after they made an agreement? Was he just trying to cheat Jacob out of his rightful wages?Q10.So how could placing striped sticks in front of sheep and goats actually cause them to produce speckled or striped offspring? Was Jacob just being superstitious, or was there more to it?
