If you think your family is dysfunctional, it’s not exclusive to you!<\/p>\n
Here are bible stories that go to the extremes (you might want to rethink how it really is with your own family, so yes, squabbles happen, since the beginning of time<\/em>). <\/p>\n Bible stories of dysfunctional families, sibling competition or sibling rivalry:<\/p>\n Cain and Abel<\/a>, brother murdering own brother<\/p>\n Esau and Jacob<\/a>, twins fighting for their birthright;<\/p>\n Leah and Rachel<\/a>, sisters married to one man Jacob.<\/p>\n Rachel stealing from her father, Laban.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Jacob fears Esau<\/a>, after many years of not seeing each other.<\/p>\n In God’s own perfect time, they reconciled<\/a>.<\/p>\n Simeon and Levi<\/a>, the angry brothers over the defiling of Dinah.<\/p>\n Joseph<\/a>, sold into slavery by his own brothers.<\/p>\n Judah and Tamar,<\/a> daughter in law deceives father in law.<\/p>\n Joseph’s story<\/a>,\u00a0 from slavery to prison, and then interpreting prisoners’ dreams<\/a>.\u00a0 Then Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you think your family is dysfunctional, it’s not exclusive to you! Here are bible stories that go to the extremes (you might want to rethink how it really is with your own family, so yes, squabbles happen, since the beginning of time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianlifegroups.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}