Main Chapter Points
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- Creation
- Beginnings
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- Creation of Man and Woman
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- Sin
- Consequences
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- Cain and Abel
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- Genealogy of Adam to Noah
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- Ungodly
- Noah
- Grace and the Ark
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- Earth flooded
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- Waters recede
- God’s Command and Promise
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- God’s Covenant with Noah
- Rainbow
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- Japheth, Ham, Shem descendants
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11.
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- Tower of Babel
- Abram’s family line - Shem to Abram
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12.
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- God’s Call and Promise to Abram
- Journey to Egypt
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13.
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- Fighting between herdsmen of Lot and Abram
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14.
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- War between 4 Kings and 5 Kings
- Abram delivers Lot
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Melchizedek
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15.
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- God restates promise of descendants to Abram
- Prophecy of
Egyptian bondage and deliverance (v.13)
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16.
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- Birth of Ishmael by Hagar to Abram
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17.
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- God’s covenant renewed to Abram
- Circumcision
- Names changed,
Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah.
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18.
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- Three "men" visit and foretell the birth of a son
- Abraham pleads for Sodom and Gomorrah
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19.
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- Lot’s deliverance
- Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
- Pillar
of Salt
- Lot’s sin
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20.
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-Abraham and Abimelech
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21.
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- Birth of Isaac
- Hagar and Ishmael sent away
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22.
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- Abraham told to sacrifice Isaac
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23.
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- Sarah dies
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24.
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- Abraham finds Rebekah as wife for Isaac
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25.
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- Abraham dies
- Family of Isaac
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Need
something "Catchy" to help you remember what's happening in 26 to 50?
26 - “She’s my sis in
twenty-six.”
27 - “Stole from my brethren in twenty-seven.”
28 - “Ladder to the gate in twenty-eight.”
29 - “Serving time with wives so fine in twenty-nine.”
30 - “Rachel & Leah get down & dirty in chapter thirty.”
31 - “Work for Laban is done in chapter thirty-one.”
32 - “New name for you after wrestling hurts sinew in thirty-two.”
33 - “My brother and me in thirty-three.”
34 - “The sore Hivites are no more in thirty-four.”
35 - “Deborah, Isaac, and Rachel ain’t alive in thirty-five.”
36 - “Dukes, what a list, in thirty-six!”
37 - “Slavery’s no heaven in thirty-seven.”
38 - “Judah takes the bait in thirty-eight.”
39 - “Come on, Joseph, be mine or Potiphar’s house is so fine in
thirty-nine.”
40 - “Dreams of death and glory in chapter 40.”
41 - “Joseph is #1 in forty-one.”
42 - “Come for food/spies like you in forty-two.”
43 - “Bring the baby (Benjamin) to me; perhaps he’s forty-three.”
44 - “Judah begs more and more in forty-four.”
45 - “Joseph is alive in forty-five.”
46 - “To Egypt go 66 (plus wives) in forty-six.”
47 - “Bury me with my fathers when I go to heaven in forty-seven.”
48 - “Blessings for Joseph’s sons won’t wait in forty-eight.”
49 - “Prophecies for these sons of mine in forty-nine.”
50 - “Forgiveness is nifty in fifty.” |
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26.
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Isaac’s failure
A. He faced his father’s
temptations (vv. 1–5).
Famine
Gerar
B. He repeated his father’s sin (vv. 6–11).
Wife as sister
Caught
C. He dug again his father’s wells (vv. 12–22).
Reaped 100 fold
Philistines stopped up Abraham’s wells
He was asked to leave
His servants dug again the wells
D. He trusted his father’s God (vv. 23–33).
He built an altar
Abimelech made a covenant
E. He had grief from his oldest son (vv. 34-35)
Esau marries 2 Hittite women
Rebekah grieves also |
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27.
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Jacob steals Esua’s blessing
A. A declining father. (vv. 1-4)
He was old and eye were dim
He asked Esau to hunt and make savory food
B. A doubting mother. (vv. 5-17; 42-46)
Rebekah told Jacob
Bring two kids from the flock
Jacob put on Esau’s clothes
Put skins on his hands and neck
C. A deceiving son. ( vv. 18-29)
Isaac recognizes the voice
Told feel my hands
Asked to kiss him so he could smell the clothes
Gave the blessing to Jacob
Esau would serve Jacob
D. A despairing brother. (vv. 30-41)
Esau returns
Isaac asks who are you
Esau your firstborn
Jacob has taken my birthright and now my blessing
His blessing was:
he would live by the sword
serve his brother
but would break his yoke |
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28.
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Jacob travels to find a wife
A. The Venture (28:1–9)
Isaac sent Jacob to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel his mother’s father
Take a wife of the house of Laban his mother’s brother
Esau took another of the house of Ishmael
B. The Vision (28:10–12)
The angels on a ladder (v. 12)
The Lord above the ladder (v.12)
C. The Voice (28:13–15)
The land (v. 13).
The seed (v. 14).
God would be with him (v. 15).
D. The Vow (28:16–22)
the gate of Heaven
set up a pillar of the stone of his head
If God will be with me
Then He shall be my God
I will give him a tenth |
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30.
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Jacob’s Service for Laban’s
Daughters
A. Decision (29:1–20)
Jacob meets Rachel
Jacob helps Rachel
Jacob meets Laban
Jacob offers to work 7 years for Rachel
B. Deception (29:21–30)
Laban gives Jacob Leah
After a week Laban gives Jacob Rachel also but Jacob has to work 7 more
years
C. Division (29:31–30:24)
The Lord saw Leah was unloved
She had Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah
Rachel was barren and envied Leah
Rachel gives Jacob Bilhah her maid and she had Dan and Naphtali
Leah gives Jacob Zilpah her maid and she had Gad and Asher
Reuben found mandrakes and Rachel wanted them so Leah hired Jacob as the
price
Leah had Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah
God remembers Rachel and she has Joseph
D. Deception (30:25-43)
Jacob wants to leave
Laban wants him to stay
Jacob says it will cost all of your speckled sheep and goats and brown
lambs
Laban put all his speckled and spotted goats and brown lambs 3 days
journey away
Jacob put striped rods by the watering troughs when they were strong and
they had offspring |
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31.
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Jacob’s Flight from Laban’s
House
A. The conference (vv. 1–16).
The Lord told Jacob to go
Jacob told Rachel and Leah his dream
The Lord only had streaked, speckled, and grey spotted rams tp jump the
flocks
The Lord told him to return to the land of your kindred
They said do it
B. The chase (vv. 17–35).
Laban was shearing sheep and Rachel stole his household idol
Laban was told on the third day and followed them 7 days to the mountains
of Gilead
God told Laban in a dream to be careful
Laban asked why he left without telling him so he could say goodby to his
daughters
Laban accused Jacob of stealing his goods
Jacob said search all I have
Laban didn’t find the idol
Rachel was sitting on it and said the manner of women was with her
C. The conflict (vv. 36–42).
Jacob was angry
Jacob recounts their history
D. The covenant (vv. 43–55).
Laban said these are my daughters, my children and flocks
Jacob set up a pillar and a heap as a witness
Jacob was not to take other wives or abuse them
They were not to pass this heap
Jacob offered a sacrifice they ate and left |
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32.
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Jacob the Wrestler
A. He met God’s angels (vv. 1–20).
Jacob met the angels and named the place Mahanaim or the Lord’s host
He sent messengers to Esau
They returned and told him Esau had 400 men with him
Jacob divided everyone into two bands because he was afraid
Jacob prayed to God
He sent gifts unto his brother divided into to droves
B. He met the Lord (vv. 21–26).
That night he and his family passe over the ford Jabbok
Jacob wrestled a man until the breaking of the day
When the man did not prevail He touched Jacob’s thigh and it when out of
joint
C. He met himself (vv. 27–32).
Jacob’s name was changed to Israel because he was a prince who has power
with god
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel or I have seen God face to face
Because of Jacob thigh the children of Israel do not eat the sinew which
shrank |
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33.
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Jacob the Backslider
A. His lack of trust (33:1-7).
He divided his family into 3 groups
Handmaids and their children
Leah and her children
Rachel and Joseph
Esau is kind in their meeting
B. His attempt to buy Esau (33: 8–11).
Esau asked what is the meaning of these droves
Esau refused them
Jacob urged him and he took them
C. His deception (33:12–17).
Esau wanted to travel with them to his home
Jacob made excuses
Children are tender
Flocks and herds are with young and if over driven in one day they will
die
Esau wanted to leave some men with them
Jacob said he did not need them
Esau went to Seir and Jacob went to Succoth
D. His house (33:17-20).
Jacob built a house and made booths for his cattle
He then came to Shalem, a city of Shechem and pitched his tent there
He bought a piece of land from Hamor for 100 pieces of money
he built an alter and called it El-el-o-he-Israel, God, the God of Israel |
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34.
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Jacob’s Daughter
A. Jacob’s daughter (34:1-5)
Dinah went to visit
Dinah is defiled by Shechem son of Hamor
Shechem wants her for his wife
Jacob hears but held his peace
B. Jacob’s sons (34:6-19)
They were very grieved and wroth
Hamor asked for Dinah and offered any dowry
Hamor asked for other daughter’s for marriage and offered theirs
The son’s answered deceitfully
They said we cannot do this the men of Shechem were not circumcised
C. Shechem agrees (34:20-24)
Hamor and Shechem communed with the men in the gate
There is enough room
We will take their daughters to us as wives
All of their possessions will be ours
They all agreed
D. Shechem punished (34:25-31)
After 3 days they were sore
Simeon and Levi took their swords and slew them
They took Dinah out of Shechem’s house
They spoiled the city and took all they had
Jacob said they had made him to stink among the inhabitants
they said “Should he deal with our sister as an harlot” |
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Jacob the Traveler
A. The first journey (35:1-15)
• God called Jacob to Bethel to make an altar
• They prepared by placing all their gods and earrings under the oak by
Shechem
• They arrive at Luz, which is Bethel and build the altar because this is
where God appeared to Jacob when he fled from Esau
• Deborah, Rachel’s nurse dies
• Reminder of God’s appearance when he came out of Padan Aram
B. The second journey (35:16-20)
They went to Ephrath where Rachel travailed and had hard labor
Rachel dies giving birth to Benoni, which his father called Benjamin
Jacob sets up a pillar upon her grave
C. The third journey (35:21-29)
They travel to Edar
Reuben lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine
Jacob twelve sons are named
Isaac was 100 and four score years old and died
Esau and Jacob buried him |
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36.
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Esau’s Family
He has 3 wives
He has to move from Jacob because there is not room for their cattle to
mount Seir
He is called the father of the Edomites
His sons are called dukes
Anah found the mules in the wilderness
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37.
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Joseph sold
A. Jacob’s love (vv. 1–4).
Joseph was 17 years old
He brought an evil report of the sons of Bilhah ans Zilpah to his father
He was given a coat of many colors
His brethren hate him and could speak peacefully to him
B. Joseph’s dreams (vv. 5–11).
When Joseph told his dreams they hated him more
First dream
They were binding sheaves ans Joseph’s sheave arose and his brethren
sheaves did obeisance to his sheave
They hated him yet the more
Second dream
The sun, moon and 11 stars made obeisance to him
His father rebukes him
His brethren envied him
His father observed the saying C. Judah’s scheme (vv. 12–28)
• Israel sends Joseph to find his brethren in Shechem and to report on
them
• A man told him they had departed to Dothan where Joseph found them
• When his brethren saw him a far off they conspired to slay him and lie
about it
• Reuben stopped them and said let’s cast him in a pit
• Joseph’s coat of many colors was taken from him and he was cast into a
pit
• While they were eating a company of Ishmeelites from Gilead came by on
the way to Egypt
D. Jacob’s sorrow (vv. 29–36).
When Reuben returns and doesn’t find Joseph in the pit he rents his
clothes
They dipped Joseph coat in the blood of the kid of the goats
They brought it to their father and said they found it
Jacob rent his coat because he knew a wild beast had devoured Joseph
He put sackcloth on and mourned for many days refusing to be comforted
saying he would go down to his grave mourning for his son
The Midianites sold him to Potiphar the captain of Pharaoh’s guard |
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Judah’s family
A. Marriage (38:1-5)
Judah married a canaanite wife and had 3 sons
B. Tragedy (38:6-11)
His first son Er married Tamar
Er was wicked and the Lord slew him
Tamar was then married to Onan who refused to have children by her which
displeased the Lord who slew him
Judah sent Tamar to her father’s house
C. Sin (38:12-23)
After being comforted from his wife dying Judah goes to shear sheep
Tamar dresses like a harlot and waits for Judah
He offers a kid from the flock and she asks for a pledge
He sends the pledge but she is gone
D. Judgement (38:24-26)
Judah finds out Tamar is with child and condemned her to be burned
She gives him back his pledge and he acknowledges the child is his
E. Result (38:27-30)
She has twins
Pharez comes out first but Zarah put out his hand first and then pill it
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39.
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Joseph the Faithful Steward
A. The discipline of service (39:1–6).
Joseph becomes Potiphar’s overseer
The Lord blessed Potiphar’s house for Joseph’s sake
B. The discipline of self-control (39:7–18).
Potiphar’s wife cast eyes upon Joseph and asked him to lie with her
Joseph refused saying it would be a sin against God
She caught his garment and when he refused she accused him of mocking her
and
trying to lie with her
She told Potiphar this lie
C. The discipline of suffering (39:19–23).
Potiphar was wroth and put him in the prison
The Lord was with Joseph and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of
the prison
All of the prisoners were put in Joseph’s hand and the Lord made it to
prosper |
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Joseph the Forgotten Servant
A. The Offense (40:1-4)
The butler and the baker of Pharaoh offended him
They were put in prison with Joseph and he was to serve them
B. The Dream (40:5-8)
They both dreamed in one night
They were sad when Joseph came to them the next morning because there was
no one
to interpret their dreams
Joseph told them interpretation belong to God
C. The Interpretations (40:9-19)
The butler dreamed of a vine from which he pressed grapes into a cup and
gave it to
Pharaoh
Joseph interpreted this to mean in three days he would again serve Pharaoh
and asked
him to mention him to Pharaoh
The baker dreamed of baskets on his head that the bird ate
Joseph interpreted this to mean he would be hung in three days
D. The Fulfillment (40:20-23)
On the third day, his birthday, Pharaoh brought both the baker and the
butler and
restored the butler and hung the baker as Joseph had interpreted their
dreams
The butler did not remember Joseph but “forgat” him |
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