The Importance of Understanding Israel's History

There was a way in the Old Testament that you could convert to Judaism. So it's very important that we understand what was going on. Now as you get to the 12 tribes, you can already see it's not pure Israelite stock,. You can already see some intermingling. For instance, if you go to Genesis 38, you see where Judah has children through a Canaanite woman. And from all indications, and the Bible doesn't say it, point blank, but it looks like she's also a Canaanite. It's just simply going to happen, okay?