Where are we in time-

Well WE are only 2 weeks into this study but we have already covered-

(cliff notes version)

Creation

Adams family tree all the way to Noah

Flood

Noah’s family all the way to Abram

Abram’s family travels around

Abram & Sarai settle in Negev

Lot settles in the cities of the plains, near Sodom

Lot gets taken during a battle between the area kings and Sodom & Gomorrah

Abram saves Lot

God promises Abram an heir

Sarai gives Abram her maidservant, Hagar, and she has Ishmael

Abram makes covenant of circumcision with God and becomes Abraham

3 visitors come to Abraham and again promise a son to Abraham and Sarah

Destroy Sodom & Gomorrah

Save Lot and his family but his wife is turned to salt when she looks back

Lot settles in the mountains where his daughters get him drunk, sleep with him, and have babies

**does Lot not question where these babies are coming from?!

Finally Abraham and Sarah give birth to Isaac

Abraham sends Hagar & Ishmael away

Abraham is tested by God when God asks him to sacrifice Isaac

Sarah dies

Abraham sends his servant to Nahor to find a wife for Isaac

Isaac marries Rebekah

Abraham dies

Isaac & Rebekah have twins- Jacob & Esau

Esau gives Jacob his birthright bc he’s “starving”

Famine but this time Isaac stays in Gerar but still tells the men that Rebekah is his sister

Isaac gets old, Rebekah has Jacob trick Isaac into giving him Esau’s blessing

Jacob flees Esau and goes to Laban where he meets Rachel

Falls in love with Rachel and agrees to work for 7 years for her but instead his father in law gives him her sister, Leah

Jacob works another 7 years for Rachel

Jacob and Leah have Reuben

Jacob ends up having lots of kids (12 sons), accumulating wealth, and flees his father in law, leaving Laban

Jacob heads home and prepares to meet Esau, ends up meeting and wrestling with God

When he meets Esau, guess what?! Esau is no longer angry and happy to see Jacob

The story of Dinah— ok well no mystery why this one gets left out of the children’s book 😳 I’m really not sure that I knew this story. Semi- romantic, but super dark, twist at the end- definitely ready for its movie rights, but I don’t think this is going to be a Disney family, G rated movie

God renames Jacob to Israel

Rachel dies during childbirth while having Ben-Oni (Benjamin) Jacob’s 12th son

Esau’s family tree

Pre Israelite Rulers of Edom

Learn more about Jospeh- Jacob & Rachel’s son

Shepard with his brothers

Has dreams about his brothers bowing down to him

He is his father’s favorite

Dreams upset his brothers

They decide to kill him

Reuben, the oldest brother, convinced them to just throw him in a cistern

Actually sell him to Mediante merchants, who sold him to the Ishmaelites, who take him into Egypt and sell him to Potiphar (pharaoh’s captain of the the guard)

Judah (one of the brothers) moves away, gets married, has kids, son gets married, but his son dies so the daughter in law ends up tricking Judah into sleeping with her so that she can get pregnant

Meanwhile in Egypt- Potiphar’s wife has a crush on Jacob, when he won’t sleep with her she has him sent to prison

In prison he meets and interprets dreams for the pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker

Baker gets executed but cupbearer gets reinstated (fulfilling Joseph’s dream interpretations)

Pharaoh has weird dreams, no one can interpret. Cupbearer remembers Joseph and suggests him to the pharaoh

Joseph interprets the dreams and meaning a famine is coming

Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge of the food supply and prepping for the coming famine in Egypt

WHEW!! I don’t know about y’all but oh my goodness that was ALOT of content. I mean we only covered a couple thousand years. 😉 We could spend much more time diving into each of these sections and looking more in depth at the details and parallels and I would very very much like to- maybe that can be our next study!! At this point, my hope is that we can just get a better grasp of the Bible as a whole- the big picture THEN go back and examine the individual stories and passages more in depth.

So far I’m really enjoying piecing all these stories together and seeing how these people are connected. What about y’all- enjoying this? learning? new take always??