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