Places & Landmarks
Who's Who
Schemes & Deceptions
Plot & Props
Promises to Jacob
100
The place where Jacob slept on a stone pillow and dreamed of a ladder to heaven.
What is Bethel?
100
The younger sister who Jacob fell in love with at first sight by the well.
Who is Rachel?
100
The total number of years Jacob ended up working for Laban just to marry Rachel.
What is 14 years?
100
The animal Jacob was hired to tend and shepherd for Laban.
What are sheep?
100
The place where Jacob dreamed and heard God's promise.
What is Bethel?
200
The local name of the city before Jacob renamed it "Bethel."
What is Luz?
200
Jacob's father-in-law who repeatedly tricked him and changed his wages ten times.
Who is Laban?
200
The reason Laban gave for tricking Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel first.
What is "it is not our custom to give the younger daughter before the older"?
200
The dream creatures Jacob saw moving up and down the ladder connecting heaven and earth.
What are angels?
200
God promised Jacob He would do this wherever Jacob went.
What is be with him / keep him / watch over him?
300
The pile of stones built by Jacob and Laban to mark their covenant boundary, which also meant "watchtower."
What is Mizpah?
300
Jacob's firstborn son, born to Leah.
Who is Reuben?
300
The plant gathered by Reuben that Rachel traded to Leah in exchange for a night with Jacob.
What are mandrakes?
300
The physical object Jacob used as a pillow at Bethel, which he later set up as a pillar and poured oil on.
What is a stone?
300
God promised to give Jacob this while he lay sleeping at Bethel.
What is the land (the land on which he was lying)?
400
The mountain region where Laban finally caught up with Jacob after he fled.
What is Mount Gilead?
400
The mother of Jacob's sons Gad and Asher.
Who is Zilpah?
400
The specific item Rachel stole from her father and hid inside her camel's saddle.
What are the household gods/idols?
400
The physical description given to Leah's eyes in chapter 29, often contrasted with Rachel's beauty.
What is "weak" or "delicate"?
400
God said Jacob's descendants would be as numerous as this.
What is the dust of the earth?
500
The specific geographic region where Laban lived and where Jacob went to find a wife.
What is Paddan-aram?
500
The mother of Jacob's sons Dan and Naphtali.
Who is Bilhah?
500
The three types of wood branches Jacob peeled to influence the breeding of the flocks.
What are poplar, almond, and plane trees?
500
The specific color/pattern of sheep and goats that Laban agreed could belong to Jacob as wages.
What are speckled, spotted, and dark/black?
500
This earlier patriarch's blessing Isaac said God would give to Jacob.
What is the blessing of Abraham?
M
e
n
u