Sunday Adam & Eve Moses 3, Genesis 2, Abraham 5 Be sure to have your journals out…

What is your favorite day of the week? Read these verses: Moses 3:1-3 – look for three verbs about what God did on the Sabbath. Answer these questions: What does sanctified mean? What do you think he wants you to do on the Sabbath?

Moses 3:2-3 What does it mean that God “Rested”? “Sometimes we have thought of rest as being a place where we get on the reclining chair, or in our sneakers, or we get outside and lie on the grass, something where we are at rest. That isn’t the kind of rest that the Lord is speaking about. Heavenly Father rested—rested from His labors, but not put away from his work” (President Kimball, “The Privilege of Holding the Priesthood,” Ensign, Nov. 1975, 80).

Write about these in your journal What are some ways you can focus on sacred things on the Sabbath? How do you feel you have been blessed by resting from your labors on the Sabbath day and focusing on sacred things? What will you do THIS SUNDAY to make it different?

True of False? (Find proof in Moses 3:4-7) 1.We lived in heaven as spirit children of God before we were born on earth. 2.Plants and animals were created spiritually in heaven before they were created physically on the earth. 3.Some forms of life on the earth are not creations of God.

“It is held by some that Adam was not the first man upon this earth, and that the original human being was a development from lower orders of the animal creation. These, however, are the theories of men. The word of the Lord declares that Adam was ‘the first man of all men’ (Moses 1:34), and we are therefore in duty bound to regard him as the primal parent of our race….Man began life as a human being, in the likeness of our heavenly Father” Joseph F. Smith (“The Origin of Man,” Improvement Era, Nov. 1909, 80) Moses 3:7-9

Moses 3:13 [footnote] Moses 3:18-20

Help Meet – Meaning? The Hebrew words for ‘help meet’ are ‘ezer kenegdo and mean = power equal, and suited to = equivalent opposite, or complimentary The King James translators rendered this phrase “help meet”—the word meet in sixteenth-century English meaning “fitting” or “proper.” It might be clearer if there were a comma after “help”—“I will make him an help, meet for him.” עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ

Why do you think it was “not good that the man should be alone”? Moses 3:21–23

What’s with the rib? “The story of the rib, of course, is figurative.” Spencer W. Kimball Ensign, Mar. 1976, p. 71

What’s with the rib? “The rib, coming as it does from the side, seems to denote partnership. The rib signifies a lateral relationship as partners, to work and to live side by side.” Russell M. Nelson Ensign, Nov. 1987, p. 87

Equal With Him “Woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.” (Matthew Henry in Thomas S. Monson, Favorite Quotations from the Collection of Thomas S. Monson, 33.) Moses 3:21–23

In what ways should husbands and wives be equal? Share an example.

Find something in the Family Proclamation that teaches the same principle that the story of the rib teaches.

Sunday Adam & Eve Moses 3, Genesis 2, Abraham 5