WHAT'S IN A NAME
This son of Rachel and Jacob had a name that meant "TO ADD" i.e. 'add to me another son'
Who is Joseph?
Jacob's dream contained this object used by angels to travel to and from heaven.
What is a ladder?
This daughter did not have to worry about hand-me-downs from her many brothers. She was only girl born out of the 4 wives of Jacob.
Who is Dinah?
This was a place and a people that Isaac forbid Jacob to choose when seeking out a wife.
What is Canaan?
Jacob met this woman at a well, and wanted to marry her, but ended up first marrying her sister.
Who is Rachel?
This name that Leah gave to one of her sons born of Zilpah meant "BLESSED".
Who is Asher?
The blessing of this prophet, would be a promise of fruitfulness and an inheritance of a chosen land to those descended from him.
Who is Abraham?
This woman was the birth mother of Gad and Asher.
Who is Zilpah?
Mentioned in Genesis 29, this place is home to "the people of the east" among whom were counted Laban and his family.
What is Haran?
This animal was very important to a shepherd like Laban. Over his years of service Jacob increased this population greatly.
What is a sheep?
"WRESTLING" is behind the name that Rachel gave to this son born of Bilhah.
Who is Naphtali?
Jacob worked and served for this many years in order to keep his covenant with his parents, and the Lord. Laban tricked him into working twice as long in order to marry the woman he loved.
What is 7 years?
This woman was the birth mother of Dan and Napthali.
Who is Bilhah?
This place mentioned in Genesis 28 shares part of it's name with a common barley drink.
What is Beer-sheba?
This man saw the blessings that Isaac promised to his brother and reacted by marrying a daughter of Ishmael. His usual wife was a woman of Canaan.
Who is Esau?
"PRAISE" the Lord! This son was the 4th child of Jacob and Leah.
Who is Judah?
Jacob loved this woman so much her, he said that the initial 7 years he served Laban seemed but a few days.
Who is Rachel?
Where Jacob was meant to go to find a wife, the House of Bethuel, the home of Rebekah's father, or in other words....
Where is Padan-aram?
As Jacob bought his birthright from Esau for a bowl of pottage, Rachel traded Leah access to Jacob for this food from the field.
What is a mandrake?
This child of Jacob and Leah has a very appropriate name with the meaning "LOOK, A SON".
Who is REUBEN?
What is 13 children?
This woman gave birth to half of the tribes of Israel on her own. She was faithful and gave birth to 6 sons and 1 daughter.
Who is Leah?
Jacob consecrated a pillar in this place that was originally called Luz. The new name he gave it reflected it's new consecration as a House of God.
What is Beth-El?
This phrase meant that the children of Bilhah and Zilpah were adopted into the family of the women they worked for. The act of putting a newborn child into another's lap would be called this.
What is "she shall bear upon my knees?"