How It All Goes Down
- Time to talk about Dinah.
- Dinah's mother and "mother-aunties" absolutely cherish her as a child.
- Joseph, Rachel's son, is also Dinah's first and closest friend.
- When they are just babies, Joseph helps Dinah stand for the first time, while Dinah helps Joseph talk. Daw, these two little ones are adorable.
- Dinah notices that all of the children have formed mini-tribes, mostly separated by age.
- Reuben, Simon, Levi, and Judah are much older and almost men by the time Dinah knows their names.
- Judah is the nicest to Dinah, because he is the youngest out of the older boys. Simon and Levi are really mean and nasty, though.
- Zebulun is the leader of the younger kids, and Dan is his "lieutenant."
- Gad and Asher are playmates and also jokesters.
- Eventually, Simon and Levi make fun of Dan and Zebulun for playing with Dinah and Joseph, so Dan and Zebulun try to act more manly, and they follow the older kids.
- Dinah remembers how her mother has little patience with her inadequacies as a child, and one time she even slaps Dinah for throwing down her day's spinning.
- Luckily, Dinah is reassured by Bilhah, who tells her a story about Uttu, a woman who taught other women how to turn wool into string and string into cloth.
- After the story, Dinah becomes confident in her spinning.
- Dinah then talks about the rivalries between the brothers.
- Simon and Levi fight a lot. Zebulun and Judah do, too, but the fighting is over physical strength, and it's good-natured. Gad and Asher are embarrassed by their mother Zilpah's clumsiness. And Tali and Issa blame Leah for making them look identical.
- Yeesh, talk about chaos.
- Also, Laban has lost two of Jacob's favorite dogs—and then he loses Ruti in a gambling bet.
- Uhh, that's not good.
- Leah is able to convince Jacob to buy Ruti back, and he ends up losing a lot from buying her back. He is treated well over the next few weeks for his goodness.
- Ruti also becomes indebted to Leah, and she sticks to Leah's side like gum on the wall.