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Genesis 28:10-30:43 Lesson 16

Isaac  Isaac married Rebekah  Isaac is 40 years old  Rebekah becomes pregnant Isaac is now 60 years old Twin boys  Esau  Jacob  Abraham is now 160 years old review

Birthright  Esau called Edom (red)—father of Edomites  Esau tired and weary  Jacob cooking stew  Esau foolishly sells his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew  “Thus Esau despised his birthright” review

Repeat Of Promises  I will be with you and bless you  To you and your descendants I give all these lands  I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heavenIn your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed  “because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws” review

Isaac Is Old  Isaac is old and nearly blind  He sends Esau to hunt for game  Make him food and receive his blessing before he dies  Rebekah hears the plan review

Deceit  Rebekah plots with Jacob to deceive his father  Jacob lies to his father and receives the blessing  Esau returns to find what has happened  He asks Isaac for a blessing, also  There is none  Esau weeps review

Esau’s Future  Isaac tells Esau that he will dwell ‘away from’ the fatness of the earth and the dew of heaven  He would live by the sword and serve his brother  Later he would break the yoke from his neck Herod, the Edomite, in the NT ruled the Jews review

Esau vs Jacob  Esau hates Jacob and threatens to kill him (remember this)  Rebekah learns of Esau’s plans and tells Jacob to go away—back to her brother Laban in Haran—for a ‘few days’  She tells Isaac that Jacob should not take a wife from the people of the land review

Wives  Isaac tells Jacob that he should not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan  Go to Padan Aram to take a wife from the daughters of Laban  Jacob and Esau are 77 at this time review

Wives  Esau knew that Isaac did not want Jacob to marry the Canaanite daughters  He took as a wife Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael review

Summary  Favoritism  Lies  Deceit  Trickery  Hate  Spouse selection  Rebellion toward parents  Promises of God review

Jacob flees  Going from Beersheba to Haran  Stopped at Luz/Bethel

Beersheba

Jacob flees  Going from Beersheba to Haran  Stopped at Luz/Bethel  Dreamed of a ladder reaching into heaven  God appeared  Repeated land, nation, and seed promises to Jacob  Behold I am with you wherever you go

Jacob flees  Awoke from his sleep awesome  How awesome is this place  Vowed that the L ORD would be his God  Vowed to give God a tenth of all God would give to him  Goes on to the East

Meets family  Arrives at a well in Padan Aram  Rachel comes to water her sheep Daughter of Laban; mother’s brother  She goes to tell Laban  He gives Jacob a very warm welcome  Jacob stays a month  Start discussing wages

Daughters  Leah is older and ‘delicate’  Rachel, the younger, is beautiful  Jacob offers to work seven years for Rachel  Time seemed as only a few days  Laban prepares a feast

Wives  Leah is given to Jacob instead of Rachel Older must marry first  Given Rachel and agrees to work seven more years  Zilpah maiden for Leah  Bilhah maiden for Rachel  Jacob loved Rachel more

Sons are born  Leah Ruben Simeon Levi Judah  Bilhah Dan Naphtali  Zilpah Gad Asher  Leah Issachar Zebulun Dinah (daughter)  Rachel Joseph

Time to leave  Jacob had been here 14 years  Ready to take his family and return to the land promised to him by God  Laban pleads for him to stay  Wages are negotiated Spotted and speckled Brown  Mixed color sent three days away with Laban’s sons

Jacob’s success  Power of imagination May have been used by shepherds in Canaan Exposed cattle to mixed color sticks  Speckled and spotted sheep are born  The L ORD is blessing Jacob  Genesis 30:43 Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

God Almighty  Keeps promises Promises to Abraham and Isaac Now repeated to Jacob I will be with you (same Jacob who had deceived his father) lesson

God Almighty  Blessed Jacob How else would he have accumulated so much wealth  Cattle and sheep with or without color, etc lesson

“pet peeve”  awesome  inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear; causing or inducing awe  Slang. very impressive That car is totally awesome.  “The appearance of God in this place is never to be thought of, but with a holy awe and reverence.” lesson

014 - Awesome God - 1.4

014 - Awesome God - 1.5

001 - I Stand In Awe End of Song I Stand in Awe

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Genesis 11 Creation 22 Adam and Eve in the Garden 33 First Sin 44 Cain and Abel

Genesis 55 Generations of Adam 66 Wickedness; building of ark 77 Flood 88 Waters recede

Genesis 99 Meat for food; rainbow promise; capital punishment; sin of Noah  10 Generations of Noah  11 Tower of Babel; scattering of the people

Genesis  12 Promises to Abraham; lie in Egypt  13 Abraham and Lot separate  14 Abraham rescues Lot  15 God’s covenant with Abraham

Genesis  16 Birth of Ishmael  17 Covenant of circumcision  18 Strangers visit Abraham  19 Destruction of Sodom

Genesis  20 Abraham and Abimelech  21 Birth of Isaac  22 Test of faith  23 Death of Sarah

Genesis  24 Wife for Isaac  25 Jacob and Esau  26 Jacob and Abimelech  27 Jacob gets the blessing