his fathers concubine] It was a great griefe to Jacob that Dinah was ravished, yet so much the lesse as she was more innocent, being, as it is like, abused by force; but this Act of Reuben and Bilhah was a sinne of greater guilt in them, because willing (it is like) on both sides, of greater griefe to him, and of greater shame to the whole family; yet it is set downe with the silence of Jacob, or Israel (though as a father to the one, and as an husband to the other, the wrong touched him in the neerest degree) and without censure of the writer: which may teach us to take notice of the faults of religious families, rather with silent sorrow, then with clamorous reproach, if such scandalous sinnes be committed among Christians, that Religion should not suffer for it; the Religion may be good though some that professe it may sometimes doe such wickednesse as is not to be named, 1 Corinthians 5:1. And this fact of Reuben teacheth that the Patriarchs were not chosen for their merits, but by Gods mercies, whose election by their faults was not changed. After this incest of his sonne, Jacob abstained no doubt from Bilhah, as David did from his defiled concubines, 2 Samuel 16:22. Twelve] With Dinah the children of Jacob were thirteen, but women come not into the account of the Tribes; and without her the Tribes (taking the two sonnes of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh for severall Tribes) were thirteene; but usually they are reckoned but for twelve, because those two were not the sonnes of Jacob by immediate descent, as Joseph their father, and all his brethren were; and now the number of Jacobs sonnes is made up, for after the death of Rachel he had no more.