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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

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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”

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Wives

Esau knew that Isaac did not want Jacob to marry the Canaanite daughters

He took as a wife Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael

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Summary

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

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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 How awesomeawesome is this place Vowed that the LORD 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 LORD 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)

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God Almighty

Blessed Jacob How else would he have

accumulated so much wealth Cattle and sheep with or without

color, etc

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“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.”

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014 - Awesome God - 1.4

014 - Awesome God - 1.5

001 - I Stand In Awe - 1.6

End of Song

I Stand in Awe

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Genesis

1 Creation

2 Adam and Eve in the Garden

3 First Sin

4 Cain and Abel

Genesis

5 Generations of Adam

6 Wickedness; building of ark

7 Flood

8 Waters recede

Genesis

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