The Sons of Jacob SOS Class, August 22 & 29

“Was it not necessary for the ______to suffer these things?”

Then He explained what Moses and the ______said about what the Messiah had to suffer and endure.

The Patriarchs Jacob was the son of ______.

Isaac was the son of ______.

Abraham was the son of ______.

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ABRAHAM & SARAH. “All people on earth will be blessed through your offspring” anticipates the coming of the ______.

God tells Abram to leave your ______, and go to a ______I will show you. I will bless you and make you into a great ______. I will make your ______great, and all people on earth will be ______through your seed.”

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How did Abraham react when God told him that Sarah would be the mother of many nations?

God tells Abraham that He would establish his everlasting covenant with Ishmael/Isaac (circle one).

Why did God tell Abraham to look up at the sky and count the stars? So shall your ______be!

ISAAC & REBEKAH. From where did Isaac obtain a wife? From his mother’s family in ______.

God told Rebekah two things about the two babies she carried. God said, there are two ______in your womb, and the ______will serve the ______.

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How does Jacob and Rebekah trick Isaac into giving Jacob the “blessing of the firstborn?”

JACOB & RACHEL In the Jacob’s Ladder dream, God tells Jacob that his descendants will be like the ______of the earth, and through your descendants all ______on earth will be blessed.

Jacob worked for Laban 7 years to end up with ______. He had to work another 7 years for ______.

Rachel/Leah (circle one) bore Jacob 4 sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. Bilhah/Zilpah (circle one), Rachel’s maid, bore Jacob 2 sons: Dan and Naphtali.

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Bilhah/Zilpah (circle one), Leah’s maid, bore Jacob 2 sons: Gad and Asher. Rachel/Leah (circle one), bore Jacob 2 sons and 1 daughter: Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah Rachel/Leah (circle one), bore Jacob 2 sons: Joseph and Benjamin.

Dinah. Who raped Dinah? Hamor, Shechem, or Simeon (circle one). Why did Simeon and Levi want every male in Shechem to be circumcised?

Who annihilated the city of Shechem?

Sons of Leah. About Levi/Reuben/Simeon (circle one) Jacob said, “you shall not have preeminence over your brothers because you defiled your father’s bed?”

Sons of Bilhah. About Dan/Naphtali (circle one) Jacob said, “you will be a serpent.”

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Sons of Zilpah. About Asher/Gad (circle one) Jacob said, “his food will be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties.”

Joseph & Benjamin. Jacob had only one beloved wife, and that was whom?

Rachel died while giving birth to which son?

The brothers plot to kill Joseph, but Judah/Reuben (circle one) convinced them to just put Joseph down in one of the cisterns.

When the Ishmaelite Traders come by, Judah/Reuben (circle one) convinces the brothers to sell Joseph to the traders.

Serah, daughter of Asher, tried to cheer up her grandfather, Jacob, by playing the ______and singing her songs.

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Judah & Tamar After Judah’s son, Er, died, Onan became the ______-redeemer for Tamar, but he died also. Judah promised her that his youngest son would marry her when he grew up, but Judah did not make that happen.

Judah gave a temple prostitute his seal, cord and staff to hold until he returned with a young ______as payment for her services. She turned out to be Tamar, and Judah realized that he never gave her to his son a kinsman-redeemer.

Back to Joseph. When Joseph refused the advances of Potiphar’s wife, Potiphar did what?

When Pharaoh’s baker and cupbearer were thrown into prison, Joseph interpreted their dreams which came true. The baker/cupbearer (circle one) was restored to his position.

When Pharaoh had dreams, Joseph was called upon to interpret them. When he did so successfully, Pharaoh made him ______over the land of Egypt.

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Sons of Jacob go to Egypt. When the brothers explained to the steward that their money has been restored to their sacks, and they didn’t know how that happened, the steward replied that “______restored your money to you.”

When the silver cup was found in the sack of Benjamin, Joseph told them Benjamin would (1) die, or (2) become his slave?

When Judah explained that the loss of Benjamin would kill their father, Joseph said, (1) “Then he will die.” (2) “I am Joseph.”

Through which son does the Messiah come? ______Mary the mother of Jesus is the direct descendant of which son? ______

And Jacob and his children and grandchildren packed up and left for Egypt with all their livestock to obey Joseph and the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

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