Genesis Questions

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religionstudent

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1. What three promises are given to Abram in Genesis 12.1-3?

2. How does God reaffirm the convenant/promise in Chapter 15? Give several specifics.

3. What becomes the external "sign" of the convenant in Genesis 17?

4. Who were Hagar and Ishmael and what role did they play in the Abrahamic convenant?

5. What does the interchange between God and Abraham in Genesis 18.22-33 reveal about the character of God and the attitude of Abraham toward God?

6. Who is Issac? What is the main point of this story (Genesis 21.1-8; 22.1-19)? What questions emerge for you about God as a result of the story?

7. In Genesis 24, "A Wife for Issac" - The story begins and ends at a "well" (24.11, 62f). What significance could there be the location of a well?

8. In Genesis 25.1-11, who is Keturah? In Genesis 26:17-22, once again the "Well" is mentioned. What might be the significance?

9. How would you describe the relationship between Isac/Rebecca and their two songs, Esau and Jacob after reading Genesis 25.19-28.22?

10. Read more about the marriage of Leah and Rachel in Genesis chapters 29-31. Wow! What do you think of Laban and his trick that cost Jacob 7 years of work? What does the number "7" remind you of from the Bible stories? What do you think it might signify/mean?

11. Read Genesis 34. What are your feelings toward Dinah and her tragic story?

12. List the 12 sons of Jacob on the family genealogical charton the back sheet (Genesis 25.22b-26) - Be sure and include his only daughter on the list. Why do you think she is not included in this particular text?

13. Why was Joseph such a special son to Jacob? Read Genesis 37; 39-50 and record the most significant events from Joseph's life.

14. Read carefully Genesis 50.18-21. What do you find fascinating or significant about how this segment of the story concludes? What seems to be emphasized by the biblical writer?

Thanks so much for all your help! I truly appreciate it.
 
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Great questions, but I'm not doing your homework/assignment for you.
 
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ardchoille

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As much as I love helping others learn, I'm afraid I will have to side with Tintin here. You'll gain so much more if you complete the assignment yourself.

"Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you'll feed him for a lifetime."
 
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Tintin

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Read the relevant chapters and passages and you'll find the answers. If you need extra help, find a few good Bible commentaries and study them too. But be discerning. Only God's Word can be trusted 100%.
 
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ardchoille said:
As much as I love helping others learn, I'm afraid I will have to side with Tintin here. You'll gain so much more if you complete the assignment yourself.

"Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you'll feed him for a lifetime."
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Good quote but I like this one better :)

Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
 
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In Genesis 24, "A Wife for Issac" - The story begins and ends at a "well" (24.11, 62f). What significance could there be the location of a well?
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Wells in the Bible are pictures of how the word of God and the spirit of God is being made available for salvation. Believers draw water (the word and the spirit) from the well(s) of salvation, parable language for salvation being made available. The location of the well in the story you mention is outside the city of Nahor. Nahor means 'snorting'. This is a little important since this alludes to horses. Horses in the Bible are always pictures of Jerusalem in various ways; not meaning physical Jerusalem so much as spiritual Jerusalem, the city associated with God, which is really just the people associated with God, whether Jews or Gentiles, no matter. Even in places in which it seems like horses are associated with other things in the Bible, horses are still talking about Jerusalem in parable form. Nahor, for example is a parable picture of Jerusalem. Anyway, we see that the well is outside the city. The book of Hebrews tells us that the place to meet Jesus is outside the city: "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." Isaac is a parable picture of Christ, and the wife for Isaac is a parable picture of his bride, the true believers. We meet Christ outside the city in the sense that we meet Christ at the cross. We see that to be made his bride he has endured the reproach of the cross on our behalf. Many Bible scholars are not accustomed to treating the entire Bible as an entity ridden with parable meanings, but the Bible itself says that it is to be understood in a parable picture sort of way (Psalm 78:2, Mark 4).
 
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