The Red Tent Audiobook by Anita Diamant

Dinah, the narrator, opens up The Red Camping tent by introducing herself and describing that she is stating the memories of her life and also her mommies’ lives– because without a daughter to tell the tale, a woman’s background does not live on. Dinah focuses initially on the tales of her mommies, the four partners of Jacob– Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and also Bilhah– and also just how they happen wed to the very same man. Jacob is endangered with death by his twin brother, Esau, in their residence of Canaan and mosts likely to Haran to seek out his uncle Laban and marry among his little girls. The Red Tent Audiobook by Anita Diamant Streaming. He fulfills Rachel and also instantly enjoys her, for she is unusually beautiful. Leah, that is older, begins to love him. On Rachel as well as Jacob’s wedding day, Zilpah convinces Rachel (who hesitates of the wedding evening) to allow Leah put on the wedding veil as well as marry Jacob. She does, as well as Leah and Jacob spend a blissful honeymoon week together. Then Rachel realizes she has actually been tricked and weds Jacob herself a number of months later on. Already, Leah is expecting. Laban deals his two bogus daughters, Zilpah as well as Bilhah, as part of his various other daughters’ dowries to function as Jacob’s courtesans. One by one, they all bear children– Leah births 6 kids, and Zilpah and also Bilhah birth two each– except Rachel, that miscarries for several years and eventually ends up being a midwife. Finally, Leah bears the only child, Dinah. Shortly afterwards, Rachel gives birth to 2 healthy children, Benjamin and Joseph.

Dinah recounts her childhood years growing up as the only woman among eleven brothers. She spends the majority of her time at her mommies’ knees, following them as they cook and also run the family’s camp. While Dinah plays most often with Joseph, she is loved by her mommies and can regularly be discovered in one of their tents having her hair braided. As a result of her unique condition as the only lady youngster, she is enabled to go into the red tent every month with her mommies as they begin their menstruations and commemorate the new moon. There Dinah discovers to sing the songs of women, eats their special foods, and listens to the stories of her grandmother and also the goddesses of her people. She is content to be any place her mommies are.

After years on Laban’s lands, Jacob determines to return with his family members to the land of his very own people. They pack up their whole camp, as well as Jacob deals with Laban for the flocks as well as belongings he sees as rightfully his, having actually been movie director of Laban’s flocks for many years. Rachel takes Laban’s home gods (which are icons or porcelain figurines), as they are hers by bequest (considering that she is the being youngest child). The Red Tent Audio Book Online. They set off for Canaan, and also Dinah is awestruck by the exhilaration of travel: she sees slaves, jugglers, and weird pets. When they finally fulfill her uncle Esau as well as his family members, the reunion is a delighted one. Dinah satisfies her relative Tabea, who is the initial lady pal she makes of her very own age. Esau provides to share his lands with Jacob, but he rejects, and also the household proceeds to discover space sufficient to sustain Jacob’s several kids. They make camp at last, and some of his sons take better halves.