UNIT 4

UNIT 4

1. Issac and Rebekah

   • •Met at a well •Rebekah got nose wring •Gave water to camel and servant
   • •He was meditating and she rode in a camel •She wanted to marry him •Her parents gave her a choice
     • They fell in love with each other at first sight
   • •Issac was rich •Rebekah was a virgin •Issac got the Rebekah's family's blessing
   • They had 2 sons; Esau and Jacob

2. Esau and Jacob

   • Esau: Big, Strong, Red, Hairy, Hunter, and Issac's favorite
     • Esau married Ishmael's daughter to get back at his father, and Jacob ran away
   • Jacob: Small, weak, stayed by the tents, and Rebekah's favorite
     • Jacob dressed up as Esau and took his blessing
   • Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew
   • Jacob askes Laben to marry Rachel, and says he will give him to her after 7 years of work, he gives Jacob Leah. Laben tricked him into and 7 years making it a total of 14 years.
     • Leah becomes pregnant
     • After one week he marries Rachel
       • She goes into labor and has a son named Benjamin She dies in childbirth

3. Reunited

   • God promises Jacob the land of Canaan
     • Bethal
   • Jacob sees angels of God and sends messengers to Esau
   • He prays for Gods protection against Esau
   • Jacob goes to Jabbok river, and wrestlies a strange man
     • The man changes Jacob's name to Isreal
       • God tells him to build an altar and reassures that his name has been changed
   • Esau arrives with 400 men and him and Israel embraced and weeped
     • Rachel is burried on the way to Bethlehem
       • Pillar
   • Jacob visits Hebron and Issac passes away at 180. Him and Esau burry him