Justice in the Book of Genesis

Justice, by exposition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, means the process or result of using laws to evenhandedly judge and punish crimes and criminals. The antecedent of Genesis, also defines nicety as the severe punishment towards the lot who have made mistakes or commit serious misbehaviors. For instance, in Genesis, there is such a strong sense of referee that it works as the foot of many stories. Justice and duty are in conclusion served in most of the stories. For example, in the tale of Jacob and Esau, Jacob finally stomachs for his transgression by running away to a distant place and operative for Laban for 14 years. Also, Shechem, the son of Hamor, rapes Jacobs only daughter Dinah and tries to embrace her but finally explicate killed by Jacobs sons Simeon and Levi. Whats more, Jacob punishes his two furious sons by dispersing them among the land of Israel and not expectant their territory. No matter what diversity of reason they have or no matter what p leasant of thanksgiving they have been promised by God, these characters have committed mistakes and support back for their guilt. Therefore, we conclude that justice in Genesis is served and clear-cut because guilty individuals need to pay for their own misbehavior and ultimately stand the serious punishment.\nJacob, the son of Isaac and the brother of Esau, has committed two major injustices during his early demeanor: He first offers a bowl of red yawp to Esau in exchange for the birthright which God had assigned to be Esaus. He also commits the pretence towards Isaac and acts as his brother Esau later(prenominal) to get the patriarchal blessing from his father. These injustices of Jacob finally bring the tragical outcome back to him and oblige him to pay for for his own misdeed: First, the reason that Jacob is able to grass his father is because Isaac was old and his eyeball were too dim to moot (Genesis 27:1). But later, afterwards Jacob has worked seven years for Laban in order to marry Rachel, Laban dec...