Season 5 Episode 14 – Genesis 24 - 36 - The Recap!!

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Intro - 3:43

A’ight So Boom! - 4:17

Why did Laban eagerly run to meet Abraham’s servant at the well? - 6:34

A. He recognized Abraham’s family seal B. He heard the servant speak of visions C. He saw the jewelry given to Rebekah D. He feared the servant was Egyptian royalty

2. What oath did Jacob require from Esau before giving him bread and stew? - 8:38

A. An oath of servitude B. A covenant sacrifice C. An oath selling the birthright D. A pledge before Isaac

3. Which specific promise did God reaffirm to Isaac during the famine? - 9:09

A. Kings would descend from him B. His descendants would inherit Canaan and bless the nations C. He would never leave the land D. He would conquer Egypt

4. What caused Abimelech to realize Rebekah was Isaac’s wife rather than his sister? - 10:38

A. Isaac called her his wife publicly B. Rebekah confessed the truth C. Abimelech saw Isaac “laughing with” Rebekah D. God warned Abimelech in a dream

5. What food did Jacob prepare to deceive Isaac? - 12:06

A. Bread and wine B. Roasted lamb and herbs C. Savory food from young goats D. Lentil stew

6. What was the primary blessing Isaac unknowingly gave Jacob? - 15:06

A. Military victory over Egypt B. Dominion, prosperity, and covenant authority C. Priesthood rights only D. Ownership of Abraham’s wells

7. What vow did Jacob make at Bethel after his dream? - 18:21

A. To return immediately to Canaan B. To build an altar yearly C. That the LORD would be his God if brought back safely D. To never marry outside his family

8. Why were Leah’s eyes specifically mentioned in contrast to Rachel? - 20:34

A. Leah was blind B. Leah’s appearance contrasted Rachel’s beauty C. Leah had diseased eyes D. Leah wore a bridal veil constantly

9. Which sons of Jacob were born to Rachel’s servant Bilhah? - 23:17

A. Gad and Asher B. Dan and Naphtali C. Issachar and Zebulun D. Joseph and Benjamin

10. What object did Rachel hide while sitting on the camel saddle? - 25:37

A. Jacob’s blessing B. Household idols (teraphim) C. Silver coins from Laban D. Covenant tablets

11. Why did Jacob limp after wrestling with the man at Peniel? - 27:22

A. His ankle was broken B. His thigh socket was touched C. He fell onto stones during the struggle D. An angel struck him with a rod

12. What covenant sign did Simeon and Levi use deceptively against the men of Shechem? - 28:20

A. Burnt offerings B. Nazarite vows C. Circumcision D. Passover observance

Genesis 24 - My Girl, My Girl, My Girl!! - 33:43

Genesis 25 : On to the Next One! - 35:45

Genesis 26: Deja Vu! - 41:57

Genesis 27:  Stolen Blessings!! - 45:04

Genesis 28 : Chutes and Ladders!! - 50:37

Genesis 29 : The Old Switcheroo!! - 54:07

Genesis 30 : Fool Me Once …!! - 1:00:33

Genesis 31: Let’s get out of here! - 1:07:07

Genesis 32: Wrestling with My Past (and God) - 1:13:27

Genesis 33 : Time Heals all Wounds?!! - 1:18:36

Genesis 34 - Just Leave me Alone!! - 1:25:52

Genesis 35 - Return of the … Jacob!! (Oh my God!) - 1:35:41

Genesis 36 - Red Hairy Man’s Chronicles!! - 1:45:28

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Season 5 Episode 13 – Genesis 36 - Red Hairy Man’s Chronicles!!

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Intro - 3:50

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Read Genesis 36 1-8 - 16:28

Read Genesis 36 9-19 - 30:08

Read Genesis 36 20-30 - 35:53

Read Genesis 36 31-39 - 43:40

Read Genesis 36 40-43 - 47:49

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Season 5 Episode 12 – Genesis 35 - Return of the … Jacob!! (Oh my God!)

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Intro - 2:55

A’ight So Boom! - 3:54

Read Genesis 35 1-4  - 11:18

• God Speaks to Jacob

• Gives him a command

• Arise

• Go to Bethel

• Make an altar to me

• Jacob’s Initial Response

• Needs to do some things prior to leaving

• Gets his household in order

• Makes a great declaration about God in his life

• Jacob’s people respond

• Give all the foreign gods

• Give the rings from their ears

• Jacob buries them in Shechem

Read Genesis 35 5-8 - 20:08

• Jacob’s group travels

• They set out for Bethel - the tribes see them

• A Terror from God fell on the surrounding cities (Protection)

• So the cities did not pursue them

• They arrived in Luz (Bethel)

• Jacob and his group arrive

• Jacob built the altar

• Recalls when God revealed himself to Jacob there

• Rebekah’s Nurse, Deborah, dies and is buried under an Oak below Bethel

• Jacob calls this place Allon-bacuth

Read Genesis 35 9-15 - 29:29

• Is this a recap or is this new

• Calls back to some things we have seen before

• Notes that God appears to Jacob again

• Says when - When he came from Paddan Aram 

• Recalls Jacob’s name change

• Tells Jacob who He is (God Almighty)

• Gives a command - hearkens to Genesis 1

• Then the things we know from Abraham and Isaac (Nations, Kings, and Land)

• Then God went up from there

• Jacob responds as he did in Bethel

• Think this is the same place

Read Genesis 35 16-22 - 40:32

• Jacob and his crew leaves leaves Bethel toward Ephrath

• Rachel goes into labor when they were far off from Ephrath

• Hard labor

• Got harder (hardest)

• Told of a son

• As Rachel was dying she named him Ben-oni

• Jacob called him Benjamin

• She was buried on the way to Ephrath

• Jacob set up a pillar at her tomb

• Pillar is still there to the day of this books writing

• Traveled on past the Tower Eder and there pitched his tent

• While there Reuben crossed a line - slept with his fathers concubine (Bilhah)

• Israel heard of it

• There are 12 sons with Benjamin’s birth

Read Genesis 35 23-27 - 56:31

• We go through Jacob’s sons

• Leah

• Rachel

• Bilhah

• Zilpah

• Says they were born in Paddan-aram

• Jacob gets back to his father

• At Mamre or Kiriath-arba (Hebron)

• Isaac Obituary

• He lived to 180 years old

• He breathed his last and died

• Was gathered unto his people

• Old and full of days

• Jacob and Esau buried him

• We are not told where

Season 5 Episode 11 – Genesis 34 - Just Leave me Alone!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 2:46

A’ight So Boom! - 3:26

Read Genesis 34 1-4  - 9:39

• Meet Dinah - Again

• Daughter of Leah

• Leah bore her to Jacob

• Went out on the town

• Meet Shechem - The son and the Town

• The son of Hamor

• A Hivite

• A Prince

• The drama

• Shechem Saw Her, Seized Her, Laid with Her and thus Humiliated Her

• As a Result

• His soul was drawn to her (daughter of Jacob)

• He loved her (the young lady)

• He spoke to her (spoke tenderly)

• Went to Dad to Remedy the Situation

Read Genesis 34 5-7 - 26:25

• Jacob knows- actions defiled Dinah

• Sons (probably Dinah’s brothers) were in the field

• Jacob held his peace until they came in from the field

• Hamor visits Jacob (King goes to see jacob)

• Brothers come back - we see how bad this is

• They were very angry and indignant

• What was done was an outrageous thing

• Such a thing must not be done

Read Genesis 34 8-12 - 33:08

• We get insight into the discussion between Hamor and Jacob and his sons (not sure which ones)

• Hamor’s soul longs for your daughter

• Asks (Please) give her to him as a wife

• Expands to beyond just Shechem and Dinah

• Make marriages with us

• Give your daughters to us

• The land shall be open to you (the irony)

• Make this your home (the irony)

• Shechem continues to make a case

• Let me find favor in your eyes

• I will give whatever you ask

• A great bride price and gift

• Just give me the woman for a wife

Read Genesis 34 13-17 - 42:01

• The sons of Jacob answer - not Jacob (shades of Laban with Rebekah)

• Answered deceitfully (because of Dinah being defiled)

• Call out circumcision

• You all do this and that makes you fit to merge our families (a disgrace)

• This has not been forgotten

• Still important, even if being presented in deceit

• If you do it …

• We will agree with you

• We will give you our daughters

• We will marry your daughters

• We will dwell in your land

• We will become one people

• If you don’t We are Out of Here (skedaddle?)

Read Genesis 34 18-24 - 53:04

• Hamor and Shechem - So you are saying there a chance

• They moved quickly (especially the young man) 

• Because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter

• We get more information on Shechme - best of what his father has to offer

• They (Hamor and Shechem) spoke at the gate

• Told them what was discussed

• Made a case of combining the groups

• Let everyone know the condition (Circumcision of the men)

• Then things get selfish

• Their livestock, their property and their beasts be ours

• They listened and did as they said (every make was circumcised)

Read Genesis 34 25-29 - 1:02:10

• Three Days Later - Spongebob Square Pants Voice

• Simeon and Levi attack with the sword

• The men were sore

• The city felt secure - no indication that they were in danger

• Simeon and Levi (only two called out alone)

• Killed all the men

• Including Hamor and Shechem

• Took Dinah out of Shechem’s house

• The sons came (more than just Simeon and Levi?)

• Plundered the city

• Took all their animals (reversal from what they wanted)

• Took their wealth, little one and wives

• Everything they had

Read Genesis 34 30-31 - 1:10:56

• Jacob is upset

• This looks bad for him

• Brought trouble on me

• Made me stink to the inhabitants

• Can’t protect himself or his family if they gang up on him

• The sons response, should they treat our sister as a prostitute

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Season 5 Episode 10 – Genesis 33 : Time Heals all Wounds?!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 2:08

A’ight So Boom! - 2:40

Read Genesis 33 1-3  - 7:24 

• Lifted Up His Eyes

• Behold

• Esau’s Coming with his 400 Men

• Jacob (Israel) take action - His Name is Israel, why Call Him Jacob?

• Divides up the family

• Servants with their children

• Leah with her Children

• Rachel with Joseph (the only one named)

• Jacob meets Esau first - Bowing Himself 7 Times, until he came near Esau

Read Genesis 33 4-7 - 21:08

• They Meet

• Jacob could not have expected the response he received

• Esau ran

• Embraced Him

• Fell on his neck

• Kissed him

• They wept

• Esau Sees everyone else

• Who are all these people

• Jacob praises the LORD (graciously given)

• Everyone Draws Near (such a well-behaved family)

• Each group draws near

• Each group bowed down

Read Genesis 33 8-11 - 27:26

• Esau inquires about the present (over 400 animals sent his way)

• Jacob says why he sent it (find favor in your sight)

• Esau does not need it

• Jacob insists

• If I have found favor

• Then, accept the present from my hand

• I have seen your face

• Which is like seeing the face of God (not seeing God)

• You have accepted me (like God accepted me)

• Re-insists on Esau’s acceptance

• Please Accept

• Blesses God again

• Says this does not even put a dent in what he has

• Esau takes the gift

Read Genesis 33 12-16 - 35:36

• Let us journey on our way - Wants to leave with Jacob

• Jacob does not want to

• Appeals to the Esau’s knowledge and call him lord (adonai)

• Children are frail

• Nursing flocks and herds require attention

• Can’t go as fast as you (why Laban caught him?)

• Suggests that Esau go ahead and they will meet in Seir

• Esau wants to leave people (why?)

• Jacob says don’t need them - Favor saying again

• Esau went home

Read Genesis 33 17-20 - 46:34

• Jacob did not go to Seir, but to Succoth

• Built a house

• Made booths for his livestock (settled down)

• The place is named Succoth for this reason (there were booths there)

• Jacob traveled to Shechem in Canaan

• Jacob, like Abraham, brought land in Canaan

• From the sons of Hamor (group), Shechem’s father

• Spent 100 pieces of money (no weight mentioned)

• The land where he pitched his tent

• Erected an altar (place of worship)

• Name the place God the God of Israel

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Season 5 Episode 9 – Genesis 32: Wrestling with My Past (and God)

Coming Up!! - 0:00

Intro - 2:56

A’ight So Boom!! - 3:31

Read Genesis 32:1-2 - 9:00

• The Angels of God

• As Jacob goes on his way, the angels of God meet him.

• Jacob’s response: "This is God's camp!"

• He names the place Mahanaim (meaning "two camps" or "two hosts").

• What are the 2 camps? His camp and the camp of God? 

Read Genesis 32:3-8 - 13:32

• The Scouting Report

• Jacob sends messengers ahead to Esau in the land of Seir.

• The Message: Humble and submissive ("Your servant Jacob").

• Explains all that he has (willing to share? Compensate Easu for stealing his birthright and blessing) 

• The Report: The messengers return with terrifying news—Esau is coming to meet Jacob with 400 men. 

• More man than Abraham had to get lot back

• Jacob’s Panic

• Jacob is "greatly afraid and distressed."

• He divides his people and flocks into two camps. If Esau attacks one, the other can escape.

Read Genesis 32:9-12 - 26:12

• Jacob’s Prayer 

• He addresses the God of his fathers, Abraham and Isaac.

• "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies."

• "Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother."

• He throws God’s own words back to Him: "You said, 'I will surely treat you well...'".

Read Genesis 32:13-21 - 30:06

• The "I'm Sorry" Gift

• Jacob prepares a massive bribe (appeasement gift) for Esau:

• 200 female goats, 20 male goats.

• 200 ewes, 20 rams.

• 30 milking camels with their colts.

• 40 cows, 10 bulls.

• 20 female donkeys, 10 male donkeys.

• He sends them in separate droves, telling each servant to say, "They belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau."

• 6 sets of gifts coming at a staggered pace. 

• Sends everything ahead of him and stays the night at the camp

Read Genesis 32:22-26 - 36:32 

• The Midnight Match

• Jacob sends his wives, servants, and eleven sons across the ford of Jabbok.

• Jacob is left alone.

• The Wrestling Match: A "Man" wrestles with him until daybreak.

• We think Jacob is strong from him rolling the stone off the well 

• The Man touches Jacob’s hip socket, putting it out of joint.

• Jacob’s tenacity: "I will not let You go unless You bless me!"

Read Genesis 32:27-32 - 44:49

• The Name Change

• The Man asks his name: "Jacob" (Heel-catcher/Supplanter).

• The New Name: Israel ("For you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed").

• God Prevails 

• Jacob asks the Man's name, but the Man responds with a question and blesses him there.

• The Aftermath

• Jacob names the place Peniel ("For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved").

• Facing God or Face of God

• Note: Jacob limps because of his hip—this is why the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip to this day.

  
  

  
  

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Season 5 Episode 8 – Genesis 31: Let’s Get Out of Here!

Coming Up!! - 0:00

Intro - 1:07

A’ight So Boom!! - 2:32

• Genesis 30 Recap

Read Genesis 31:1-3 - 7:36

• The Motivation to Leave

• Jacob hears the words of Laban’s sons—accusing him of taking their father’s wealth. 

• Why?

• Jacob notices Laban is no longer favorable toward him. 

• Does Laban notice that his tricks aren't working? 

• The LORD speaks: "Return to the land of your fathers... and I will be with you".

• Same promise God gave Jacob at Bethel in Gen 28:15 and what Jacob wanted in his vow Gen 28:20 

Read Genesis 31:4-9 - 14:14

• Jacob’s Plea to his wives

• Jacob calls for his wives into the field to explain his current situation

• Their father is no longer favorable toward him. 

• But God has been with him

• He has served with all his strength but their father keeps changing his wages 

• God has kept Laban from harming him, physically and financially

Read Genesis 31:10-13 - 19:01 

• The Dream Revelation

• Jacob explains the breeding of the flocks was God's doing, not just the sticks.

• The Angel of God identifies Himself as the God of Bethel, the place Jacob saw the vision of Angels ascending and descending on the ladder

• Reminder of the pillar Jacob anointed and the vow he made.

Read Genesis 31:14-16 - 28:54

• The Wives’ Agreement

• Rachel and Leah agree: "Is there any portion or inheritance left for us?".

• They feel like foreigners to their father because he sold them and used up their money.

• They support Jacob's departure based on what God told him.

Read Genesis 31:17-21 - 31:18

• The Secret Departure

• Jacob puts his children and wives on camels.

• He takes all his livestock and goods acquired in Paddan-aram.

• Rachel steals Laban’s household gods while he is shearing sheep.

• Jacob "tricked" Laban by not telling him he was leaving.

Read Genesis 31:21-25  - 59:06m

• The Pursuit

• Laban is told on the third day and pursues for seven days.

• God warns Laban in a dream: "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad".

Read Genesis 31:25-35 - 1:06:48

• The Confrontation

• Laban catches up in the hill country of Gilead.

• Laban starts with “What have you done” - similar to what Jacob asked when Laban gave him Leah instead of Rachel

• Laban's complaints: "Why did you flee secretly?" and "Why did you steal my gods?".

• Laban claims he wanted to celebrate their departure (unlikely) 

• Jacob didn't tell Laban because he was afraid Laban would take his daughters by force.

• Jacob says whoever has Laban’s gods would not live. Didn't know Rachel (his favorite wife) stole them

• Laban searches the tents; Rachel hides the idols in a camel's saddle and claims "the manner of women is upon me" to avoid standing up.

Read Genesis 31:36-42 - 1:18:35

• Jacob’s Rant (The Resume of Service)

• Jacob is angry and berated Laban.

• 20 years of service: 14 for daughters, 6 for flocks.

• He bore the loss of animals torn by beasts himself.

• Consumed by heat by day and frost by night.

• "If the God of my father... had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed".

Read Genesis 31:43-55 - 1:26:27

• The Covenant at Mizpah

• Laban claims everything is "mine," but agrees to a covenant for the sake of his daughters.

• They set up a pillar and a heap of stones.

• Names: Laban calls it Jegar-sahadutha; Jacob calls it Galeed.

• Jegar-sahadutha - Witness heap

• Galeed - the heap of witness

• Mizpah Blessing: "The LORD watch between you and me when we are out of one another's sight".

• Mizpah - to watch, watchpost, watchtower

• Laban stated the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor but Jacob only swore by the Fear of his father Issac 

• The Farewell

• They offer a sacrifice and eat a meal.

• Early in the morning, Laban kisses his grandchildren and daughters, blesses them, and returns home.

Season 5 Episode 7 – Genesis 30 : Fool Me Once …!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 1:43

Meet Pastor Ron Again - 2:22

A’ight So Boom! - 3:02

Read Genesis 30 1-8  - 8:36

• Rachel Gets Envious - Leah Bore Children

• The desire that she has for children - understood

• Goes to Jacob instead of the LORD (the LORD controls wombs)

• Jacob’s response is anger? (Why not seek the LORD on her behalf like his dad)

• Rachel Gives her servant Bilhah to Jacob for children

• Gives is crazy, sign of the times

• Bilhah Conceives and bore a son

• Rachel Names him - Son 5 - Dan

• Bilhah conceives again and bore a son

• Rachel Name him - Son 6 - Natphtali

Read Genesis 30 9-13 - 41:20

• Leah Ceased bearing children

• Leah Took and gave her servant Zilpah

• Jacob as a wife (not said about Bilhah)

• Zilpah bore a son

• Leah Names him - Son 7 - Gad

• Zilpah bore another son

• Leah Names him - Son 8 - Asher

Read Genesis 30 14-24 - 44:30

• The Mandrake situation

• Days of Wheat Harvest

• Reuben (Leah’s First Born) found some mandrakes

• Rachel sounds like Esau - Give me some of your son’s mandrakes (stew)

• Leah sounds like Jacob - You take my husband and my son’s mandrakes

• They make a deal for the mandrakes

• Traded mandrakes for her husband (that’s crazy)

• Jacob returns and is told he was ‘hired’ for some ‘mandrakes’, he went

• God listened to Leah?? - When did she ask, was her asking for her husband asking for children?

• She Conceived and bore a son - Son 9 - Issachar

• She conceived again and bore a son -  Son 10 - Zebulun

• She also had a daughter named Dinah

• Now it is Rachel’s turn

• God remembered Rachel - remembered means what?

• God listened to her - when did she ask

• She conceived and bore a son - Son 11 - Joseph

• May the LORD add to me another son!

Read Genesis 30 25-30 - 1:05:51

• As soon as, some immediacy

• Jacob confronted Laban (confronted may be a strong word)

• Want to leave - Go home - with his wives and children

• Laban relays the all too familiar words of the Patriarchs

• The Lord has blessed me because of you

• Name your wages and I will give it

• Jacob is not having it

• Your livestock has increased abundantly 

• The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked (every step of the way)

• When shall I provide for my household (all of this is in the possession of Laban)

Read Genesis 30 31-36 - 1:14:46

• Laban still trying to bargain from a place of strength

• What shall I give you?

• Jacob is bargaining from a place of already offered effectiveness

• Growing my own wealth

• Providing for my own family

• I am doing you a favor

• Jacob presents the plan

• Will take the less desirable sheep, lamb and goats (black, speckled, striped and spotted)

• These are his wages

• Speaks of honesty - why has his honesty been questioned or because Laban is not to give him anything (the latter)

• Will answer for me later, when you look at my wages (the spotted, speckled, striped and black lambs, sheep and goats)

• Any livestock found not like that shall be counted as stolen

• There is agreement that this is a good deal

• Laban being Laban gets the upper hand, probably trying to ensure that jacob cannot go anywhere

• Removes all the striped, black, speckled and spotted livestock from his flocks

• Gives them to his sons

• Puts a 3 days journey between those and the flocks that Jacob is to tend

Read Genesis 30 37-43 - 1:23:54

• Jacob did some stuff

• Peeled sticks 

• Set the sticks in front of the flocks in the troughs

• They bred when the came to the trough, they bred in front of the sticks and

• Striped, speckled, and spotted came forth - (What!!!???)

• Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces to Laban’s black and striped flocks

• Jacob also identified the Stronger of the flock

• Lay the sticks for them to breed

• Would not do this for the feebler of the flock

• The feebler were Laban’s and the Stronger Jacob’s

• Jacob increased in wealth (increased greatly) - Sounds like Isaac

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Season 5 Episode 6 – Genesis 29 : The Old Switcheroo!!

Coming Up! - 0:00

Intro - 1:54

Meet Sheryl - 2:18

A’ight So Boom! - 4:22

Read Genesis 29 1-3 - 7:57

• Jacob’s Journey - The land of the people of the East (East again)

• A well is seen - flocks watered out of this well

• Three flocks of sheep already there

• Large stone on the mouth of the well

• When all the flocks arrived

• Shepherds (plural) would roll away the stone

• Water the sheep

• Put the stone back when done

Read Genesis 29 4-8 - 11:56

• Jacob starts a conversation

• Where you from? - Haran

• Do you know Laban? - Yes

• How is he doing? - Well 

• Rachel mentioned - She is coming with the sheep

• Is Jacob mansplaining?

• Tells them what they should be doing with the sheep

• We learn that Jacob has some agricultural skills

Read Genesis 2 9-14 - 23:05

• Rachel steps on the scene - Walkout music?

• While still speaking with them (suddenness)

• Told she was with her father’s sheep

• She was a shepherdess

•  Jacob greets Rachel - weird?

• Kisses her

• Weeps

• Tells her who he is (guess it makes sense after this)

• Rachel’s response similar to Rebekah’s response

• Rant to Tell Laban

• Laban’s response is similar to his meeting of Abraham’s servant.

• Ran to meet him

• Invited him in

• Make a declaration - Surely you are a relative (Adam?) - identify Theft y’all?

• Stayed with him a month

Read Genesis 29 15-20 - 32:57

• A month has passed and Laban asks about wages - making it sound like he is not trying to take advantage of him

• Laban has two daughters we are introduced to them

• Contrast of the daughters just like the sons

• Leah described as having weak eyes

• Rachel described as beautiful in form and appearance

• Jacob loves Rachel, there is that word again, and will work 7 years for her

• Laban says this is better than anyone else in this area

• Stay with me

• Jacob served 7 years

• They seemed like a few days, because he had love for her (this is different)

Read Genesis 29 21-25 - 50:12

• Then - Seven years has passed

• Give me my wife

• We should be married

• I worked as we agreed on

• Laban puts together the marriage ceremony

• All the people of the place

• Made a feast

• But - Something is going on here that is not of the expectation

• Laban brought Leah to Jacob (not Rachel as agreed upon)

• Laban gave Zilpah to Leah for a servant

• Jacob does not know until the next morning

• What is this you have done to me?

• Did I not serve you Rachel?

• Whey then have you deceived me?

• Jacob got a taste of what he delivered to Esau (Hairy)

Read Genesis 29 26-30 - 55:20

• Laban is like - ‘It’s not me it’s you.

• This is how we do things, do not know how you all do things

• Laban uses the ‘Firstborn’ word

• Laban gives an alternative

• Complete another week (7 years)

• You can then marry Rachel

• Jacob completed another 7 years

• Another marriage festival(?)

• Laban gave his daughter Rachel  to Jacob

• Jacob gave his female servant to Rachel - Bilhah

• Jacob went into Rachel

• He loved Rachel more than  Leah

• Repeats the 7 years (Rachel given on the promise or after the completion)

Read Genesis 29 31-35 - 59:48

• The LORD ‘saw’ that Leah was hated - Actually treated her badly or that He just knows or both

• This causes the LORD to move

• He opened Leah’s womb

• He did not open Rachel’s womb

• Leah conceived and bore …

• Son 1 Reuben - The LORD has looked upon my affliction

• Now my husband will love me

• Son 2 Simeon - The LORD has heard that I am hated

• Son 3 Levi - This time my husband will be attached to me - 3 sons

• Son 4 Judah - This time I will praise the LORD

• Then she ceased bearing

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Season 5 Episode 5 – Genesis 28 : Chutes and Ladders!!Coming Up! - 0:00Intro - 1:52Meet Pastor Ron Again - 2:16A’ight So Boom! - 2:39Read Genesis 28 1-5 - 7:26Rebekah’s Plan WorkedIsaac Called Jacob?!Called him and blessed him, intended to and knew it was himYou must not take a wife from CanaanTold him where to go, who to look for and what to doGod Almighty (El Shaddai) Bless YouMake you a Company of PeoplesBlessing of Abraham (Take possession of the land)Isaac obeyed his fatherThis is not, however, a competing version of the blessing already granted (27:27–29); rather it expresses the patriarchal blessing in its historic terms (vv. 3–4; e.g., 16:10; 17:2, 6, 20; 22:17; 26:4, 24; 35:11; 48:4). K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 439.To Isaac’s credit, the blessing he gives to his son is the blessing of Abraham. Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18–50, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995), 235.Read Genesis 28 6-9 - 44:29Esau Saw/Learned some thingsDid not want Jacob to do what he had doneThe Canaanite women did not please his parentsIn particular is fatherTried to rectify the situationStill not quite rightAt least in the family - but the rejected side of the familyRead Genesis 28 10-15 - 51:02Jacob has a Journey Ahead of Him (Beersheba to Haran)Looks like hundreds of milesHis travels take him to sundownJacob reaches ‘the place’ - identified with the definite article by the narratorESV notes the stone is ‘under his head’, this may also be ‘at his head’He has a dreamThis Dream is Crazy, In this Dream …Jacob sees a ladder(Behold) Reached from Earth to Heaven (Abode of God or stars)(Behold) Angels Ascending and Descending on it(Behold) The LORD stood above the ladder and spoke to Jacob (this means the Abode of God?Introduces himself - You will know who is speaking to youGives the Promise of Abraham to Jacob and his offspringThen gets personalI am with you wherever you goI will keep you wherever you goI will bring you back to this land (the land that I promised)If I said it will come to passRead Genesis 28 16-22 - 1:04:47Jacob wakes up with some RevelationsSurely (without a doubt) the LORD is in this place (align with His Omnipresence), I was unawareHow awesome is this place (think of all he saw and heard)Considers this the house of God and the gate of heavenBethel signified to Jacob the assurance of God’s superintendence and imminence. K. A. Mathews, Genesis 11:27–50:26, vol. 1B, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), 453.Setup a marker where he sleptThe significance of the pillar (stone with oil on it) - sanctified it for the location?Named the place where he sleptCalled it Betel (House of God)Narrator identifies the previous name as Luz A vow, is not the normal responseThe usual response is a question (Abraham) or obedienceDoes this tell us anything about Jacob?Contents of the vowIf (does not sound confident)God keeps me (be with me, keep me, bring me back in peace)Then (this is conditional)The LORD shall be my GodThe stone shall be God’s house (?)Will give a tenth of all you give meMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/avbe/night-in-kyotoLicense code: WDUZARYUHWMKKMU3