Friday Digest: BSF’s Study of Genesis Lesson 16
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN GENESIS CHAPTER 25-26: God’s ways are not our ways We must accept what we don’t understand We must believe that God knows what He’s doing God grows our trust with trials We...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 17, Day 2: Genesis 27:1-13
Summary of Genesis 27:1-13: Isaac tells Esau to go and bring him a stew of the tasty wild game meat that he likes so that he can give him his blessing before he dies. Rebekah overhears Jacob tell Esau...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 17, Day 3: Genesis 27:14-29
Summary of Genesis 27:14-29: Jacob went all out on the deception, putting on Esau’s clothes and goat skins on his hands and neck in order to appear hairy like Esau. He brought the food Rebekah had...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 17, Day 4: Genesis 27:30-41
Summary of Genesis 27:30-41: Esau returns, saying the same words as Jacob, asking his father to sit up, eat, and bless him. Isaac realizes he had been tricked with Esau’s arrival. Esau wants his...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 17, Day 5: Genesis 27:42-46
Summary of Genesis 27:42-46: Rebekah sends Jacob off to live with her brother, Laban, in Haran once she hears that Esau is plotting to kill him. She tells Jacob to stay until she sends for him that...
View ArticleFriday Digest: BSF’s Study of Genesis Lesson 17
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN GENESIS CHAPTER 27: God’s will prevails despite what we do. God does not need our help. Always examine the motivations of your heart. What you do matters to others and can...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 18, Day 2: Genesis 28:1-9
Summary of Genesis 18:1-9: Isaac blesses Jacob and tells him to find a wife amongst the house of his mother in Paddan Aram (Northern Mesopotamia) among the daughters of Laban, Abraham’s brother. He...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 18, Day 3: Genesis 28:10-11
Summary of Genesis 28:10-11: Jacob left Beersheba on his way to Haran. BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 18, Day 3: Genesis 28:10-11 7) He was leaving his family for the first time. I’m sure he was...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 18, Day 4: Genesis 28:12-15
Summary of Genesis 28:12-15: When Jacob stopped to sleep, he had a dream of a stairway to heaven that angels traversed. God appeared and told Jacob He would give him the land on which he was lying....
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 18, Day 5: Genesis 28:16-22
Summary of Genesis 28:16-22: Jacob awakes the next day, declaring that this place is the house of God. He poured oil on top of the stone he was sleeping on and called the place Bethel, which means...
View ArticleFriday Digest: BSF’s Study of Genesis Lesson 18
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN GENESIS CHAPTER 28: God chooses who He wants to choose. God meets us at our point of need. God knows exactly what we need. God provides all that we need. God gives us all...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 19, Day 2: Genesis 29:1-14
Summary of Genesis 29:1-14: Jacob arrives at Paddan Aram, the land fo the eastern peoples. He saw a well where flocks of sheep were gathered. All the shephards would roll the stone away when it was...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 19, Day 3: Genesis 29:15-20
Summary of Genesis 29:15-20: Laban asks Jacob after a month what his wages were be (in sum, what he actually wants and why he is here). Jacob responds that he will work 7 years for Rachel’s hand in...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 19, Day 4: Genesis 29:21-30
Summary of Genesis 29:21-30: Jacob asks for Rachel’s hand once his 7 years is up. Laban throws a feast, but when evening came he substitued Leah for Rachel. He gave Leah a servant named Zilpah. When...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 19, Day 5: Genesis 29:31-35
Summary of Genesis 29:31-35: God gave Leah children because she was unloved. Rachel was barren. Reuben was named because Leah was miserable, his name meaning “he has seen my misery.” Simeon was named...
View ArticleFriday Digest: BSF’s Study of Genesis Lesson 19
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN GENESIS CHAPTER 29: God grows us, our character, and our faith through pain and suffering. God knows exactly what we need. God often teaches us life lessons the hard way. Our...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 20, Day 2: Genesis 30:1-13
Summary of Genesis 30:1-13: Rachel gets mad at Jacob, blaming him because she has had no children. Jacob rightly tells her that it is God, not he, that is preventing her from having children. So Rachel...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 20, Day 3: Genesis 30:14-24
Summary of Genesis 30:14-24: Reuben gathered mandrakes for Leah. Rachel asked for some and Leah refused. Rachel told Leah she could sleep with Jacob then that night in exchange for mandraks. Jacob...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 20, Day 4: Genesis 30:25-43
Summary of Genesis 30:25-43: Jacob asks Laban if he may return to his home country with his wife and children and flocks. But Laban asks him to stay for he knows he has prospered only because of Jacob...
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BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 20, Day 5: Genesis 31 and Hebrews 12:3-15
Summary of Genesis 31: Laban’s sons were jealous of Jacob’s wealth. The Lord told Jacob it was time to return to his homeland. Jacob called Rachel and Leah to him and told them how he has worked for...
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