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STUDY QUESTIONS. Lesson 32 — Genesis 31:1-55 Jacob flees from Esau. Monday. 1. What do the words of Laban’s sons (vs. 1) imply about Jacob’s character? 2. Why were Laban’s sons angry at Jacob? Was their anger justified? Tuesday. 3. Why would Jacob have called Leah and Rachel away from their tents to the field for a conference?
In Genesis chapter 29, God blessed Leah, the unloved wife, as an act of mercy and grace with four sons. In contrast, the seven boys born in chapter 30 come through a jealous competition that Jacob created between Rachel and Leah.
Genesis 34 records a tragic event—the rape of Jacob’s daughter Dinah—and a danger-ous proposition. The Canaanites of Shechem suggest intermarry-ing with Jacob’s clan, an idea that would have proven catastrophic for the purpose of God.
STUDY QUESTIONS. Lesson 34 — Genesis 33:1-20 Jacob meets Esau. Monday. 1. What does the sequence of people in verses 1-2 indicate about Ja-cob’s priorities? How do you think you would have felt if you had been Bilhah or Zilpah? 2. All was not completely negative, however. What does verse 3 say about Jacob’s character?
In Genesis 29:31-30:24 the birth of twelve of Jacob's children is recorded. These children are the offspring of four different women, Leah and Rachel, his wives, and Zilpah and Bilhah, their respective handmaids. It will be remembered that Jacob had bargained with Laban to serve him seven years for his daughter Rachel.
When we look at this patriarch’s life, we see there are many lessons associated with the one whose name was “Israel,” whose sons became the heads of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel. Here are some of them. Lesson #1 — God Keeps His Own Counsel.
notable such episodes are Laban’s replacement of Rachel with Leah on Jacob’s wedding night— just as Jacob took advantage of Isaac’s inability to see, so too Laban used the darkness as a cover for his tricking of Jacob—and, most prominently, Jacob’s own sons convincing Jacob that
