Son of the right hand-Genesis Chapter 35:1-29

 But Jacob, because he would not renew the sorrowful remembrance of the mother's death every time he called his son by his name, changed his name, and called him Benjamin, the son of my right hand; that is, "very dear to me, set on my right hand for a blessing, the support of my age, like the staff in my right hand. Of my right hand: a pun on the meaning of his name: Benjamin in Hebrew means "son of the right hand", something brought out in the bible (Genesis 35:18:" his father Jacob called him Benjamin, (that is, the son of the right hand)". It suggests that he was his father's help and support, someone essential to him. The "right hand" is seen as a place of honor and status throughout the biblical text. When the bible makes statements the Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the father, it is affirming that he has equal status to the father within the Godhead (Hebrew1:3,12:2;1 Peter3:22; Act 7:55-56. The raised right hand signifies bravery, power, virility; while on the contrary the same hand, turned to the left and placed below the left hand, signifies, according to context, the ideas of death, destruction and burial. But Jacob, because he would not renew the sorrowful remembrance of the mother's death every time he called his son by his name, changed his name, and called him Benjamin , the son of my right hand; that is, "very dear to me , set on my right hand for a blessing, the support of my age, like the staff in my right hand."Other practitioner state the difference between the two is that the desired outcome of the right is to be beside God and to serve him, while the left believes in self-deification and bow to no one.



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