The Role Of The Handmaid

"The Role Of The Handmaid" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

The Story
It is some years after Empath and Smurfette got married, when they were desperately trying to have their first child, that they were both reading from their wedding copy of Tapper's holy book and were fascinated by what they were reading in the book of Genesis. They decided that they would talk to Tapper about what they have read that captured their attention.

"Tapper, me and Smurfette were wondering about Abraham and Jacob and what they were smurfing with their wives' handmaids, in order to smurf a child through them," Empath said as they sat at a table together while Tapper was taking a break from serving drinks.

"Ah, yes, the handmaids," Tapper said. "If you've been smurfing through the Scriptures, you should know that their wives were at various smurfs in their lives unable to smurf children with their husbands, because God has left them unable to conceive."

"But why would they smurf this?" Smurfette asked. "Isn't that what the Almighty would call adultery between a married person and an unmarried person?"

"Technically it is, my dear Smurfette, but that's not how it was smurfed in that particular time and with that particular culture," Tapper answered. "You see, handmaids were slaves to their masters and mistresses and thus had no rights and no freedom over their own bodies, which meant if a married couple who owned one were unable to conceive children, then they could smurf a handmaid as a surrogate so they could conceive a child through her. That's also why there was polygamy among even the Almighty's own people, since they figure that at least one of the women in that marriage would be able to conceive a child."

"But how would these husbands even smurf a child through these handmaids without making it look like they were smurfing adultery in the eyes of the Almighty?" Empath asked.

"I'm afraid that I just don't have the answer to that question, my fellow Empath," Tapper answered. "If the Almighty intended for us to know the method of such intimate interactions, He would have had it smurfed in the Holy Scriptures through His servants."

"I would imagine that it would smurf pretty weird to have the husband and the wife present together in some sort of ritual where the husband...tries to conceive the child with his handmaid," Smurfette suggested.

"Your guess is only as good as mine, Smurfette," Tapper said. "Anyway, Sarah gave Abraham her handmaid Hagar because she at that time was unable to conceive, and though her husband was promised by the Almighty that he would have a son in his old age, He never specifically mentioned yet that it would be through Sarah and not anyone else. However, being that they were operating out of ignorance and unbelief in the power of the Almighty, Sarah saw no harm in giving her handmaid to be Abraham's wife at the time, but when Hagar did conceive, her mistress was smurfed as despised in her eyes, and Sarah got so upset that she drove Hagar out of their house. However, the Almighty had Hagar return to smurf birth to the child, who became Ishmael, but years later when Abraham's other son Isaac was born, Hagar and her child were both driven out again, this time for good, as Sarah would not allow Hagar and her child to share in the inheritance of Sarah and Abraham's own child."

To be expanded on.