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2/1 Bernice, Katherine, Hannah

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Issues with the reading:

  • there is a lot of repetition, which can make you want  to skip or read ahead
  • some of the  character’s names are not specified, such as Pharaoh. We don’t know which Pharaoh he is.
  • the story jumps around frequently, which can be quite confusing at times
  • the lack of explanation can be frustrating, such as when Cain gets a wife, we do not know where she came from
  • women are not regarded highly and are known as being deceitful and tricksters
  • god is very spiteful and tends to give extreme punishments

Genesis 32

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Facts: Jacob is on his way home when he sends messengers ahead of him to tell his brother he is coming and has possessions to offer him.

-The servants come back and tell him Esau is coming with four hundred men.

-Jacob sends the messengers again to Esau again, but this time with livestock so that he will not be killed.

-In the next story Jacob sends his family across a stream and wrestled with a man (God) all night. At daybreak they stop and God says that he is no longer Jacob,but Israel.

Observations: Jacob says that he is his brother’s servant so that his brother won’t kill him even though his father blessed him so that his brother would be his servant.

-Jacob is the only one to have actual physical contact with God.

Ideas: Jacob seems to be repenting to God saying “I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and faithfulness that you have shown your servant” (Gen. 32:10).  He seems to be asking for forgiveness but he really just wants to be saved from his brother.

Genesis ch29 summary pt1/Kia Dunn

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Jacob Meets Rachel

  • Jacob sees a well that flocks of sheep drink from
  • Jacob meets shepherds from Harah
  • Rachel=daughter of Laban
  • Laban is Jacobs mother’s brother = uncle
  • Jacob watered the sheep of Laban when Rachel came with them
  • Jacob kisses Rachel & “weeps out loud”
  • Jacob tells Rachel that he is Laban’s kinsman& Rebeka’s son
  • Rachel runs away and Laban comes to him
  • Laban tells Jacob he will care for him and lets him stay with him for 1 month.