Isaac and Rebekah
READ Genesis 24:3-4; 26:34-35; 27:46; 28:8-9
What does it matter who the
sons marry, as long as they truly love, serve and sacrifice for each other as a
married couple?
READ Genesis 24:12-14
The servant has brought 10
camels with him, each of which can drink 200 liters (53 gallons) of water a day;
what kind of person is he looking for as a wife for his master Isaac?
READ Genesis 24:17-21
What is Rebekah like?
Jacob and Esau
Rebekah consents to go back with Abraham’s servant and become Isaac’s wife. Some years later she becomes pregnant with twins, Esau and Jacob, who are born in that order - which means Esau received the birthright as the first born.
READ Genesis 25:27-28
How would you compare Esau and
Jacob?
READ Genesis 25:29-34
What is the birthright?
Why does the firstborn get the
birthright?
Why does Esau sell the birthright?
READ Genesis 26:1-5 and 24-25
Why does the Lord appear to
Isaac and give him the same covenant He’d given to Abraham?
READ Genesis 27:1-38
Can Isaac bestow the Abrahamic
Covenant on either of his sons?
What does this story teach us
about God’s covenant?
READ Genesis 27:39-45
What is Esau willing to kill
Jacob to receive?
Jacob’s Ladder
READ Genesis 28:10-12, 16-18
What is this ladder that Jacob
is seeing?
Did Jacob just happen to camp
on an ancient temple site?
READ Genesis 28:13-15; 20-22
Why is Jehovah called the God
of Abraham, and the God of Isaac but not of Jacob?
What happened to Jacob at
Beth-el?
Why is God not just called the
“God of Abraham”?
Jacob Wrestles an Angel
Jacob follows the path of his father and leaves the land of “gentiles” to go back to Haran to marry in the covenant. He meets and falls in love with Rachel and serves her father 7 years as a dowry for her but is tricked by Laban into marrying his older daughter Leah instead. Jacob then must work another 7 years for Rachel. Between Leah, Rachel and their two handmaids (who Jacob also marries), he is bourn 12 sons - the “House of Israel”. After 20 years of service, Jacob is commanded to leave Haran for Canaan.
READ Genesis 32:3-8
Why is Jacob afraid?
READ Genesis 32:9-15
What does Jacob do?
How is Jacob’s response
similar to Nephi’s attempts to get the Brass Plates?
What does Jacob most need in
the face of an ordeal that could mean the death of his family?
READ Genesis 32:24-30
How does Jacob seek to obtain
this blessing from the Lord?
What happened to Jacob – why “wrestle”
- what does that imply?
Why does the personage give
Jacob a new name?
Why does Jacob say “I have
seen God face to face” and “my life is preserved”?
What was it about these circumstances
that caused Jacob to “wrestle” for this blessing?
Why did the Lord put Jacob’s
family’s lives in mortal danger?
If this is true, why do we
continually petition the Lord to avoid all trials or be immediately released
from trials when they come?
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