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A half truth is a whole lie

Be sure to read this add VERY CAREFULLY!!! Normally, when you buy something in a store the price would be half of that listed, BUT NOT HERE!!! It seems like there is a lot of deception lately; which of course is a form of a lie. Trickery is nothing new, but what happens when the trickster is tricked?

Consider Jacob...


Genesis 29:20-26 WEB (R)
(20) Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
(21) Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
(22) Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
(23) It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.
(24) Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
(25) It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
(26) Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Jacob obtained his inheritance and birthright through deceit and then was deceived himself. One can only wonder what went through his mind when he saw Leah that morning? Although most people don't think about it much, how you live your life comes back to you in one way or another. It is always better to tell the truth in a straightforward manner than to tell a half truth, because a half truth is actually a whole lie.