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2. Genesis 33:18-38:30 (not 37)
Lesson 18

3. review Jacob Leaves Laben’s sons are ill toward Jacob
Laben’s attitude toward Jacob changes
God tells Jacob to return to his father’s land
Jacob informs his wives
Leah and Rachel

4. Jacob Leaves
review
On the third day Laben learn what has happened and gives chase
The Lord tells Laben that he is to speak neither good nor evil to Jacob
Laben overtakes Jacob and asks why he has left without saying ‘goodbye’

5. review Jacob Leaves Jacob says he was afraid
Laben accuses him of stealing his idol
Jacob tells Laben to search his company
Not knowing that Rachel was guilty.

6. review Jacob Leaves Laben searches and does not find the idols
Rachel sits on them
Jacob rebukes Laben for his accusation about the idols and for the way Laben treated him for 20 years
Jacob and Laben make a covenant that they would not harm one another in the future
Laben returns home

7. review Meeting Esau Esau is coming with 400 men
Jacob divides his company for protection
Jacob prays to God for deliverance from Esau
Jacob sends presents to Esau
drove by drove
Jacob’s name is changed to Israel

8. review Meeting Esau Jacob prepares to meet Esau
Separates the wives with their children
Rachel with Joseph is last
Joseph is age 6
Jacob and Esau meet
Esau’s reaction to the gift

9. review Meeting Esau Jacob’s reply Jacob and Esau separate
Note use of ‘enough’
Jacob and Esau separate
Esau going back to his home
Jacob travels to Succoth then on to Shechem and built a house

10. Brothers—meet 20 years later
review
Esau – enough = plenty
Jacob – enough = everything
What is the difference?
What do each have?
What does one have the other doesn’t?

11. review Brothers lessons Why the difference? Lessons? We choose
Our character
Our relationship to God
To change
How much to change
Esau changed—he did not seek to kill Jacob, but did he change enough? What was his relationship to God?
Jacob changed—no deceit in working for Laban; served God, blessed by God
Jacob made mistake, changed to serve God
Esau made mistakes, got better (forgiving Jacob), but did not serve God
Stopping being bad is the right thing to do, but don’t stop short—must replace bad with serving God; Esau stopped short

15. Return to Canaan Jacob travels to Shechem Buys land
Builds an altar to God
Shechem is city; also son of Hamor
Prince of the country

16. Dinah
Maybe years old??
Went out to mix with young ladies of the land
Wanting to ‘see’ she was also ‘seen’
Shechem lay with her
Forcibly?
Surprised her
‘defiled’ or ‘humbled’ her

17. Reaction Shechem was strongly attached to her He wants her for a wife
Brothers were away
Jacob held his peace
Brothers grieved and very angry
Such a thing ought not to be done

18. Plea for her as wife Hamor speaks to Jacob and sons
Make marriages with us
Shechem offers dowry and gifts
Brothers reply
Deceitfully
You must be circumcised
All males
Then we will give wives

19. Hamor sells the idea Return to their people Let us do this thing
They are peaceful people
Marry daughters
Their flocks will become as ours
All agreed

20. Revenge Third day when they were sore Simeon and Levi attack
Killed Hamor and Shechem
Took Dinah
Plundered city
Took herds and wealth
Took captives
Jacob troubled; will cause trouble for us

22. Move to Bethel God directed Jacob told his house
Put away the foreign gods
Purify yourselves
Change your clothes
Built an altar at Bethel
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse died there
Change your clothes—they did not bathe and change clothes everyday like we do. Think of drawing the water for bath and for washing clothes. ‘Change your clothes’ was a sign of freshness, of cleansing.
From –Wiersbe, Warren W. ( ). Be Strong (Joshua): Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life (The BE Series Commentary) (p. 61). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition.
If the experience of Israel at Mount Sinai was the pattern (Ex. 19:9–15), “sanctify yourselves” meant that everybody bathed and changed their clothes and that the married couples devoted themselves wholly to the Lord (1 Cor. 7:1–6). In the Near East, however, water
was a luxury that wasn’t used too often for personal hygiene. In our modern world we’re accustomed to comfortable bathing facilities, but these were unknown to most of the people in Bible times. In the Bible the imagery of washing one’s body and changing clothes symbolized making a new beginning with the Lord. Since sin is pictured as defilement (Ps. 51:2, 7), God has to cleanse us before we can truly follow Him. When Jacob made a new beginning with the Lord and returned to Bethel, he and his family washed themselves and changed their garments (Gen. 35:1–3). After King David confessed his sin, he bathed, changed clothes, and worshipped the Lord (2 Sam. 12:20). The imagery is carried over into the New Testament in 2 Corinthians 6:14—7:1; Ephesians 4:26–27; and Colossians 3:8–14.

23. God speaks Jacob’s name changed to Israel “I am God Almighty”
Great nation
Give you this land

25. Rachel In hard labor Benjamin is born Rachel dies during childbirth
Buried on the way to Ephrath
Reuben lays with Bilhah
Jacob hears of it

26. Sons of Jacob Leah Bilhah Zilpah Leah Rachel Gad Ruben Asher Simeon
Issachar
Zebulun
Dinah (daughter)
Rachel
Joseph
Benjamin
Leah
Ruben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Bilhah
Dan
Naphtali

27. Isaac dies
At Hebron
180 years old
Jacob and Esau bury Him

28. Esau Took wives from Canaan Takes all his possessions and moves
Land will not support both him and Jacob with all their herds and flocks
Moves to Mt Seir
Now called Edom

29. Bethel

30. Judah Married Hirah, an Adullamite woman Had three sonsEr
Onan
Shelah
Took Tamar as wife for Er
Er was wicked and God killed him

31. Judah Onan was to marry Tamar and raise children for Er
Onan refused to carry out his responsibility
God killed him
Tamar sent to her father’s house
Waiting for Shelah to grow up

32. Judah Judah’s wife dies He goes to visit his sheepshearers
Tamar hears of this trip
She had not been given Shelah, as promised
She dressed as a harlot and sat near the way Judah would travel

33. Judah Judah, thinking she was a harlot, stopped and went in to her
For payment he offers to send her a young goat
She asks for a pledge until it is delivered
Judah gives her his signet, cord, and staff

34. Judah Tamar returns to her father’s house Judah send the young goat
No Tamar
Three months later word comes that Tamar has ‘played the harlot’ and is pregnant
Judah reacts
Bring her out and let her be burned

35. Judah Tamar reveals the signet, cord, and staff Judah
‘she was more righteous than I’
Because he failed on his promise of Shelah
Twins were born to Tamar
Perez and Zerah

36. Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Matthew 1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.
3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar

37. lesson Dinah Maybe 14-16 years old??
Went out to mix with young ladies of the land
Wanting to ‘see’ she was also ‘seen’
Shechem lay with her
Forcibly?
Surprised her
‘defiled’ or ‘humbled’ her
Parents’ responsibility
Wrong place
Want to be like others

38. lesson Revenge Third day when they were sore Simeon and Levi attack
Killed Hamor and Shechem
Took Dinah
Plundered city
Took herds and wealth
Took captives
Jacob troubled; will cause trouble for us
Romans 12:19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

39. lesson Judah Not planned; just the temptation of the moment
Judah, thinking she was a harlot, stopped and went in to her
For payment he offers to send her a young goat
She asks for a pledge until it is delivered
Judah gives her his signet, cord, and staff
Not planned; just the temptation of the moment

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