Base Text: Genesis 45:25-50:26
Take the time and make the effort to add to your timeline and genealogy the new information presented.
1.
Why did Israel go to Egypt?
2.
What promise did God Make to Jacob?
3.
Who went to Egypt with Jacob? (generally)
4.
How many from each wife of Jacob came to Egypt? Total?
5.
What was Israel to answer the Pharaoh about his
occupation?
6.
What do Egyptians think of shepherds?
7.
What did Pharaoh suggest Joseph do with his
livestock?
8.
Who provided for all of Jacob’s household?
9.
What did Joseph take as payment when the money
of Egypt and Canaan was exhausted?
10.
What was given as payment next?
11.
What was the charge to live on the Pharaoh’s
land?
12.
What did
Israel/Jacob make Joseph promise him just before his death?
13.
What does Jacob say to Joseph regarding Ephraim
and Manasseh?
14.
Who does Jacob give the greater blessing?
15.
What did Jacob give Joseph more than his
brothers?
16.
Who was buried in the tomb Abraham purchased?
17.
How long does Egyptian embalming take? How long did they mourn?
18.
Where was Jacob buried?
19.
What were Joseph’s brothers concerned with after
Jacob’s death?
20.
Where and when where Joseph’s bones to be buried?
1.
Examine God’s promise to Jacob, does this
conflict with an earlier prophecy?
2.
Was it possible for Joseph to serve God in Egypt? Give reasons why he could or could not.
3.
What can be provided as evidence that Ephraim
was greater than Manasseh?
4. Examine each son’s ‘blessing’ in chapter 49.
a.
Reuben
b.
Simeon and Levi
c.
Judah
d.
Zebulun
e.
Issachar
f.
Dan
g.
Gad
h.
Asher
i.
Naphtali
j.
Joseph
k.
Benjamin
Any general thoughts related to the
blessings?
5.
Why was Jacob and Joseph’s burial place
important? Should our burial
location/method be important to us today?
6.
Considering all we have studied in Genesis, what
can be said of the patriarchs?
7.
Any other thoughts you want to share about what
you have learned/refreshed in this study of Genesis?