“Well, how would you do it?” asks Jacob. “I do as God instructs me.” “You have to pay careful attention to who is drawn to whom, who likes each other, and who doesn’t. If you appoint a couple made up of two people who hate each other, it will only bring suffering and shame.” “The point is not for them to do it to get pleasure from it,” the Lord explains to her. “The point is that they must be broken down and come around to one another. The point is for them to form a whole.” “It certainly comes easier to the husbands to be ‘broken down,’ as you call it, while the women feel horrible
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