Genesis 32-50
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CHAPTER 32 - JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD & RETURNS TO ESAU
CHAPTER 33 - JACOB & ESAU REUNITE
CHAPTER 34 - DINAH IS DEFILED / BROTHERS TAKE REVENGE
CHAPTER 35 - JACOB BLESSED AND RENAMED / RACHEL & ISAAC DIE
GENESIS 36 - ESAU'S DESCENDANTS
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CHAPTER 32 - JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD & RETURNS TO ESAU
CHAPTER 33 - JACOB & ESAU REUNITE
CHAPTER 34 - DINAH IS DEFILED / BROTHERS TAKE REVENGE
CHAPTER 35 - JACOB BLESSED AND RENAMED / RACHEL & ISAAC DIE
GENESIS 36 - ESAU'S DESCENDANTS
CHAPTER 32 - JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD & RETURNS TO ESAU
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- The first portion of this chapter shows Jacob returning to the land of Esau. We first find Jacob in a place where God‘s angels are and Jacob proclaims that this is the camp of God. From there, he sends messengers ahead to Esau who, when they return report that Esau is on his way to Jacob with 400 men. Jacob is understandably afraid.
- In an attempt to appease his brother, Jacob sends lavish gifts ahead of him to Esau. Perhaps when they finally meet, Esau will have favor on Jacob because of all the gifts that Jacob gave.
- Jacob praise to the Lord for grace and that he would fulfill his promise of blessing to him.
- Jacob journeys on a bit further and then separates himself from the rest of his family and goods. Jacob is left alone when a unique experience occurs:
- a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” Genesis 32:24–30 (ESV)
- Jacob wrestles with God in the form of a man
- Jacob is a beast and God can’t seem to whoop him, so God cheats.
- Jacob’s name is changed to Israel
- God blesses Jacob
- a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” Genesis 32:24–30 (ESV)
CHAPTER 33 - JACOB & ESAU REUNITE
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- Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. Genesis 33:1 (ESV)
- Great fear was upon Jacob as he approached Esau. Jacob put all of the servants and his own family behind him as he journeyed forward. Jake about seven times as he approaches you saw. When they finally reach one another however, Esau embraced him and they wept.
- Jacob gave great gifts to Esau, and then journeyed to Canaan. Jacob settled in Shechem and “There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel(God, the God of Israel).” Genesis 33:20
- Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. Genesis 33:1 (ESV)
CHAPTER 34 - DINAH IS DEFILED / BROTHERS TAKE REVENGE
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- Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” Genesis 34:1–4 (ESV)
- Dina is raped, and her abuser is desiring to take her as wife. Hamor approaches Jacob with terms of peace, offering that they could become one people and dwell peacefully, being united through this marriage. However, when the sons of Israel hear of this, they devise a plan. They tell the people of Shechem that they must become circumcised before they can become one people. This union would have not been acceptable to the Lord. However, Jacob’s sons are being deceptive and after the men of the city are circumstances, this occurs…
- On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. Genesis 34:25–27 (ESV)
- Dina is raped, and her abuser is desiring to take her as wife. Hamor approaches Jacob with terms of peace, offering that they could become one people and dwell peacefully, being united through this marriage. However, when the sons of Israel hear of this, they devise a plan. They tell the people of Shechem that they must become circumcised before they can become one people. This union would have not been acceptable to the Lord. However, Jacob’s sons are being deceptive and after the men of the city are circumstances, this occurs…
- Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” Genesis 34:1–4 (ESV)
CHAPTER 35 - JACOB BLESSED AND RENAMED / RACHEL & ISAAC DIE
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- God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” Genesis 35:1 (ESV)
- Jacob journey to Bethel, and on his way the Lord puts a fear in the hearts of the surrounding cities so that no one attempts to harm Jacob and his family.
- Jacob instructs those with him to throw away all the other gods and idols that they had accumulated, and to purify themselves. Jacob gathers the earrings and idols and hide them under a tree. This act was done because Jacob understood that he was entering the land of a different God, the greatest God.
- God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel. And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.” Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him. Genesis 35:9–13 (ESV)
- God comes down to Jacob and solidifies the changing of his name to Israel.
- God reiterates the Abrahamic covenant to Israel.
- Many descendants
- Great nation
- Kingly offspring
- The land promise to him and his offspring reiterated
- Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor. Genesis 35:16 (ESV)
- Rachel gives birth the Benjamin, but tragically dies in labor.
- Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. Genesis 35:22 (ESV)
- And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Genesis 35:27–29 (ESV)
- God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” Genesis 35:1 (ESV)
GENESIS 36 - ESAU'S DESCENDANTS
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- These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the Canaanites Genesis 36:1–2 (ESV)
- In contrast to Jacob, Esau married within the Canaanite peoples.
- These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the Canaanites Genesis 36:1–2 (ESV)