Study Questions for Genesis 27-37
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  1. Study Questions for Genesis 27-37

    1. How did Rebekah and Jacob trick Isaac? Why? Who receive Isaac’s blessing of the firstborn? Who should have received it? How did Esau react?

    2. Why did Jacob have to flee faraway to his uncle Laban’s house?

    3. What charge did Isaac give Jacob?

    4. Describe the dream Jacob on the way to Haran and Laban’s house? What name did Jacob give to the place where he slept that night?

    5. Whom did Jacob meet as he drew near to the land where Laban lived?

    6. To win Rachel as his bride, how long did Jacob agree to work for her father Laban?

    7. How did Laban trick Jacob? Why? What did Jacob agree to do in order to finally marry Rachel?

    8. Of the two sisters, whom did Jacob love more? What did God do to make the two women equal?

    9. What did Rachel do because of the envy she felt toward Leah?

    10. Who was Rachel’s son?

    11. How did Laban cheat Jacob? How did God multiply Jacob’s herds and make them larger than Laban’s?

    12. Why were Laban’s sons jealous of Jacob? What did Jacob and his wives do as a result?

    13. How long did Jacob serve Laban?

    14. Who stole the ‘household gods’ belonging to Laban? Where did she hide them? How did Jacob and Laban settle the dispute between them?

    15. Why was Jacob afraid and distressed as he got closer to home? What did he do to placate Esau?

    16. What happened to Jacob at the ford of the Jabbok? What new name did he get? What did it mean? What physical disability did Jacob have from then on?

    17. How did Esau react to Jacob upon the latter’s return home?

    18. Why were Jacob’s sons angry at Shechem, the son of Hamor? What did they do to Hamor and Shechem?

    19. What did Jacob order his household to do after God appeared to him and told him to go to Bethel?

    20. Who was Rachel’s second son? What happened to her at his birth?

    21. What name was given to the descendants of Esau?

    22. Why did Joseph’s brother’s hate him? What special gift from God did Joseph have?

    23. What did Joseph’s brother do to him as a result of their hatred for him?

    24. Where was Joseph taken after he was sold to the Midianite traders?

    25. How did Joseph’s brothers convince their father Jacob/Israel that Joseph was dead?







Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX