Genesis (Adults)

Genesis Chapters 32-36

Lesson written by Brian Andrews

Base Text: Genesis 32-36

Timeline/Genealogy

Take the time and make the effort to add to your timeline and genealogy the new information presented.

Check your Reading

1.       Who did Jacob meet on his way?  What did Jacob name the place?

2.       What message did Jacob send to Esau?

3.       What message did the messengers bring back?

4.       Jacob was afraid of Esau.  List four things he did to prepare for a hostile meeting with Esau:

a.      

b.     

c.      

d.     

5.       Who was with Jacob when he wrestled the ‘man’?  What did Jacob name the place?

6.       List the order Jacob aligned his family when meeting Esau.

7.       Had Esau prospered in the 20 years Jacob was absent?

8.       Did Jacob travel with Esau back to Seir?  Where did Jacob travel to?

9.       Where did Jacob go next and what did he do there (initially only)?

10.   What happened when Dinah went out to see some of the young women of the land?

11.   What did Jacob do at first and why?

12.   Jacob’s sons were grieved and angry, why?

13.   Who all agreed to the proposal of Hamor to become circumcised?

14.   What did Levi and Simeon do on the third day after the men of Shechem were circumcised?

15.   What did the other brothers do?

16.   Where did God say to go?  What did Jacob say to do before they left?

17.   What did Jacob hide under the terebinth or oak tree near Shechem?

18.   Why did no one pursue Jacob when he left?

19.   Who died at Bethel?

20.   What did Rachel name her last child?  What did his father name him?

21.   How old was Isaac when he died and who buried him?

Class Discussion/Research

1.       Please provide your research and thoughts on Jacob wrestling with the man.  Who was the man, what is said of this event elsewhere in the Bible, did it have an effect on Jacob, etc.




2.       What law does God later set in place regarding rape?  Was the arrangement Hamor and Shechem proposed against that law?  What about another Mosaic era law?




3.       Compare the actions and words of Jacob surrounding the rape of Dinah to that of his sons.   Who acted more Godly?  (Include insights given from other Bible texts)




4.       What significance is there in Jacob’s name change?




5.       God said kings would come from Jacob, considering God’s opinion of the kings of manl, is this another instance of God prescribing/forcing the path of the descendants of Abraham?




6.       What did Israel do when Rueben slept with Bilhah?  (Look beyond the text for additional answers)




7.       Build a family tree of the line of Esau as seen throughout the scriptures (just kidding), what is a take away from the line of Esau?