BSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 23, Day 3: Genesis 37:12-36
Summary of Genesis 37:12-36: Joseph’s brothers were sent to graze the flocks near Shechem. Jacob asks Joseph to go and check on his brothers. When Joseph arrived in Shechem, his brothers were no where...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 23, Day 5: Genesis 38:13-30
Summary of Genesis 38:13-30: Tamar was desperate and knew Shelah would not be her husband. So she disguised herself to go and meet her father-in-law, Judah, at Enaim on the road to Timnah. Judah...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 24, Day 2: Genesis 39:1-18
Summary of Genesis 39:1-18: Joseph was purchased by Potiphar who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, his captain of the guard. God was with Joseph, and he prospered. Potiphar noticed that God was with him...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 24, Day 3: Genesis 39:19-23
Summary Genesis 39: 19-23: Joseph was sent to the prison where the king’s prisoners were held after Potiphar’s wife claimed he tried to seduce her. God does not abandon Joseph here either. God granted...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 24, Day 4: Genesis 40:1-8
Summary of Genesis 40:1-8: Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker offended Pharaoh and were put in the same prison as Joseph. Both men had a dream that they could not interpret. Joseph saw that they were sad...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 24, Day 5: Genesis 40:9-23
Summary Genesis 40:9-23: The cupbearer said in his dream he saw three branches on a vine. It budded, blossomed and ripened into grapes. Then he squeezed the three grapes into Pharaoh’s cup and gave it...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 25, Day 2: Genesis 41:1-32
Summary of Genesis 41:1-32: Two years after Joseph helped the chief cupbearer whom he told to remember him Pharaoh had two dreams. In these dreams, he saw seven cows that were fat and then seven cows...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 25, Day 4: Genesis 42:1-20
Summary of Genesis 42:1-20: Jacob sends all of his sons to buy grain from Egypt except Benjamin, afraid that something will happen to Benjamin like Joseph. Famine is in Canaan as well. Joseph was in...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 25, Day 5: Genesis 42:21-38
Summary of Genesis 42:21-38: The brothers are at least smart enough to know that this is happening because of what they did to Joseph. Reuben blames his brothers for this, saying he tried to save...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 26, Day 2: Genesis 43:1-14
Summary of Genesis 43:1-14: Israel/Jacob and all of their family ate all of the grain that the brothers had brought back from Egypt. When they ran out, Israel told them to get more, at first without...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 26, Day 3: Genesis 43:15-34
Summary of Genesis 43:15-34: The brothers did as Jacob said. They hurried to Egypt with Benjamin. Joseph invited them to eat with him. The brothers were frightened of this action. They thought Joseph...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 26, Day 5: Genesis 44:18-34
Summary of Genesis 44:18-34: Judah pleads for Benjamin’s life, in the end offering to take his place because he cannot face Jacob and tell him that Benjamin has been taken from him like they did when...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 27, Day 2: Genesis 45:1-15
Summary of Genesis 45:1-15: Joseph sent all of his attendants away, and he revealed himself to his brothers. He wept so loudly that Pharaoh’s household was informed. His brothers were scared, thinking...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 27, Day 3: Genesis 45:16-28
Summary of Genesis 45:16-28: Pharaoh was very happy that Joseph’s brothers had come. He gave Joseph’s family the best of the land in Egypt. He gave them carts to travel in. Joseph gave his brothers the...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 27, Day 4: Genesis 46:1-30
Summary of Genesis 46:1-30: Israel/Jacob set out with all of his household and belongings for Egypt. At Beersheba he offered sacrifices to God. There God spoke to him, reassuring him to go to Egypt....
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 28, Day 2: Genesis 47:13-27
Summary of Genesis 47:13-27: Egypt and Canaan spent all of their money to buy food. When they ran out of money, they asked Joseph what they should do. He said to bring their livestock in exchange for...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 28, Day 4: Genesis 48:1-14
Summary of Genesis 48:1-14: Joseph took his two sons to see Jacob when it was reported that he was ill. Jacob repeated to Joseph the covenant promise God had made him. Jacob adopts Joseph’s two sons as...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 28, Day 5: Genesis 48:15-22
Summary of Genesis 48:15-22: Jacob/Israel blesses Joseph. Joseph tried to move his father’s hands, being displeased that Jacob had switched the order. Jacob refused, saying Ephraim would be greater...
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 29, Day 2: Genesis 49:1-28
Summary of Genesis 49:1-28: Jacob calls his sons together to bless them and tell them their future before he dies. He tells Reuben he will no longer excel because of his defilement of his father’s bed....
View ArticleBSF Study Questions Genesis: Lesson 29, Day 3: Genesis 49:29-50:14
Summary of Genesis 49:29-50:14: Jacob gave each son the appropriate blessing. He requests to be buried in the same tomb as Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah. Then he died. Joseph threw...
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