Unit 4

Unit 4

1. Sarah dies, so Abraham asks Ephron to buy some land so he can bury her

   • Ephron insists that Abraham gets it for free, but they eventually settle on 400 pieces of silver

2. Abraham tells his servant to find his son Isaac a wife from his own people

   • his servant finds a woman named Rebekah
     • sister to Laban
     • The servant takes her back to Isaac
       • it is love at first sight
         • they have 2 kids, Jacob and Esau
           • Jacob
             • born after Esau holding onto his heel
             • likes to cook and stay inside
             • rebekah's favorite
             • tricked esau into giving his birthright away
           • Esau
             • firstborn, red and hairy, hunter
             • Isaac's favorite
             • gives Jacob his inheritance because he got hungry once
               • esau came home one day very hungry and he told Jacob to make him some food or he would die. Jacob being the crafty person he is, told esau that he would have to swear his birthright to him first. Esau reluctantly agreed and gave him the birthright.
                 • later, when it is time for abraham to give the birthright away, rebekah and jacob used animal fur to trick abraham into giving away the birthright
                 • esau becomes very angry and jacob gets scared and runs away to his uncle laban
                   • on the way there he falls asleep and dreams about a stairway to heaven
                     • jacob renames the place Bethel which means house of God
                       • jacob goes by the well and rolls away a stone by himself to impress rachel
                         • then he kisses her and cries
                           • when rachel takes jacob home, he sees his uncle laban who is related to him
                             • he asks laban if he can work 7 years in order to marry rachel. laban agrees
                               • at the end of 7 years, they have a wedding feast and jacob sleeps with who he thinks is rachel
                                 • since it was dark, jacob couldn't see who it was, and it turned out to be Leah, who is rachel's older sister
                                   • jacob gets angry at Laban because he worked so long just to be tricked. Laban says that it is the custom to marry off the older daughter first. he says that jacob could marry rachel now if he would work 7 more years.
                                     • Jacob doesn't love Leah, so God makes her fertile and makes Rachel not able to have kids
                                       • leah's children
                                         • reuben,simeon,levi, judah, issachar, zebulun
                                         • because she wanted more children, leah used her servant zilpah to have more children for her
                                           • gad, asher
                                       • Later, Rachel is able to have kids
                                         • joseph, benjamin
                                           • these were jacob's favorite children because they came from his favorite wife
                                           • rachel dies from childbirth of benjamin
                                         • she also uses her servant Bilhah to have more children
                                           • dan, naphtali

3. after having kids with all 4 women, Jacob decides to trick Laban into giving him lots of money (this comes after the purple)

   • he tells laban to pay him with all of speckled goats, but laban doesn't know that jacob figured out a way to breed the sheep so that there would be more speckled goats, therefore giving him more profit
     • God told Jacob to pack up everything and leave back to his homeland
       • they pack up everything while laban is out shearing sheep, and rachel steals their household idols
         • after they leave, laban discovers his idols are missing and he chases after jacob, but God warns him not to
           • Laban eventually catches up to Jacob and asks for his idols back
             • Laban asks rachel where the idols are, but she says she can't stand up because of her period
               • not finding anything, laban makes a pack with jacob
                 • a messenger comes to jacob and tells him that esau is waiting for him and he has 400 men with him
                   • jacob becomes very scared and divides his family into 2 parts because if one group was defeated, the other group could easily escape
                     • he prays to God and says that he knows he'll be protected, but he is scared
                       • jacob sends esau 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams, 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys
                         • during the night, jacob escorts his family to the other side of the river, while he stays back. a man comes to jacob and wrestles with him all night long. the man blessed jacob and changed his name to Israel
                           • jacob and esau meet the next morning and it works out just fine. esau runs to jacob and hugs and kisses him because he missed him
                             • rachel goes into labor with benjamin, but sadly she does not make it out alive. jacob buries her on the road to bethlehem
                               • isaac also dies shortly after at the age of 180. jacob and esau both bury him

4. light blue first, then red, then follow the path until the purples then light green