thy way.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him
away, and his wife, and all that he had.

But Abraham was so little ashamed of himself that he did the same
thing again, many years afterwards, and Abimelech King of Gerar,
behaved to him as nobly as did King Pharaoh on the former occasion.

The story of Lot is too disgusting to repeat. But what are we to
think of his offering his daughters to the mob, and of his subsequent
conduct?

And what of Noah, who got drunk, and then cursed the whole of his sons'
descendants for ever, because Ham had seen him in his shame?

Joseph seems to me to have been anything but an admirable character,
and I do not see how his baseness in depriving the Egyptians of
their liberties and their land by a corner in wheat can be condoned.
Jacob robbed his brother of his birthright by trading on his hunger;
Joseph robbed a whole people in the same way.

Samson was a dissolute ruffian and murderer, who in these days would
be hanged as a brigand.

Reuben committed incest. Simeon and Levi were guilty of treachery
and massacre. Judah was guilty of immorality and hypocrisy.

Joshua was a Jewish general of the usual type. When he captured
a city he murdered every man, woman, and child within its walls.