Can You Answer These Questions?
Genesis 24: 24-34
1. Isaac and Rebekah had ________________________sons.
2. They were very different from each other. One liked to ____________________ in the woods. The other liked to stay _____________________ around the tents and work.
3. Isaac like Esau a lot because he would bring home __________________meat called venison.
4. Rebekah liked ___________ the best.
5. One day Esau came home from hunting. He was very hungry. His brother was cooking soup. He asked his brother for a bowl of soup. Jacob had a idea. He said he would give his brother soup, if his brother would sell him the family blessing called the _____________________.
6. Esau said ________________. But Esau did not think that Jacob really meant it.
7. A long time later, when the Father was old and almost blind, he called Esau in to give him the family blessing. He asked Esau if he would go hunt for a _____________ for the meal.
8. Rebekah heard that Isaac was going to give the family blessing to Esau at the meal time.
She planned to help Jacob get the family blessing. She dressed Jacob in Esau _______________.
She fixed goat meat and put spices in it to make it taste like deer meat. Jacob went into the Father and pretended that he was Esau. Isaac thought something was not right. But he went ahead and gave the family _________________________ to Jacob.
9. When Esau came home with a deer and took it to his father, he found out that the father had given the family blessings to ____________________. He was so angry he said that he would ______________ Jacob.
The family blessing called the birthright was given to the oldest son. He gave him the right to the largest part of the family’s wealth/money and land and it made him the leader of the clan or group of all the families.
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1. Twin 2. hunt home 3. Deer meat/venison 4. Jacob 5. Birthright 6. Yes
7. Deer/venison 8. Clothes blessing 9. Jacob