Sally Lloyd-Jones beautifully tells the story of Rachel and Leah, from Genesis 29-30, on page 70 of "The Jesus Storybook Bible." In fact she presented it in such a new way that it was so touching. We pulled out 3 plastic cups and placed different small toys under two of them. We took turns mixing them up and trying to guess where the shell was. It was much harder to guess if you didn't watch the cups the entire time. One time Alyse even put the shell in her lap to trick me. It made Von upset. However, it was a great time to remind them of the trick that Laban played on Jacob. the point? "But then God chooses people we least expect" (Page 70)
This simple little folding craft lets the kids find which bride is hiding behind the veil, Rachel or Leah. Part of a lesson on Genesis 29.
Genesis 25:19-34 We chose to divide this lesson into two separate binder projects, although we studied the entire lesson at the same time. The first binder project emphasizes that, although they were twins, Jacob and Esau had very little in common. This project is courtesy of http://homeschooling.about.com with the original website found here and the downloadable version found here. The second binder project emphasizes Esau's disregard for his birthright, which also came with spiritual responsibilities for which he had little interest. This project is courtesy of http://www.sermons4kids.com with the original website found here. You can also download the worksheet here, although it is important to note that we did not include the word bank at the bottom of the original. Our activity was inspired by the game Feed the Kitty by Gamewright (see the picture below courtesy of Amazon.com.) First we had the children cut out the die template as seen in the picture below and downloadable here, then we helped them tape it into a cube (tape works much better and easier than glue.) We distributed 40 uncooked pasta shells to each child to represent Jacob's stew, leaving 40 in the middle of the table as a discard pile. Everyone plays at the same time, rolling their single die and performing the activity shown on the face of the die. The 'NO' sign (line through the circle) means you do nothing--like a 'resting space.' The hand means you give a pasta shell to any other player--simply dump it in their pile of pasta. The empty bowl means you ate your stew so give a shell to the discard pile. The soup in the bowl means you were given a refill so take a shell from the discard pile. Play continues until one person is completely out of pasta shells, but that person must call out before another player hands them a pasta shell or play continues. The original websites for the clipart used in the die is found at the end of this blog. Dice Template Soup Empty Bowl Hand
Jacob & Esau is lesson 8 in the first quarter of a year of Preschool Bible Study that I assist with on Wednesday evening.
Once it came to pass, that Laban couldn’t find his Teraphim on the person or belongings of Jacob, his wives, children and servants, Jacob jumped into milking every bit of what had just happen…
For this Jacob & Esau lesson, I set up areas in the classroom and we acted out the lesson. I used the tent that is always up for 'Isaac'...
Jacob is the third generation of the great patriarch’s of the Old Testament and Israelite’s. He is the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. Jacob means “holder of the heel” or “supplanter”. When he was born he reached out holding onto his twin brother’s, Esau, heel. Even when they were both in the womb we are told “the children […]
The story of Jacob from Genesis 30 and Genesis 31. How did Jacob flee from Laban?
Today's lesson is continuing with Jacob and his family. We will discuss his leaving Laban with Leah and Rachel and his children. He wrestl...
Hero resources for the kids ministry lesson on Jacob’s marriages. High quality graphic, colouring page, and take home card. Supporting material onsite.
Today's lesson is continuing with Jacob and his family. We will discuss his leaving Laban with Leah and Rachel and his children. He wrestl...
This week's lesson is Jacob's Ladder. There are printables to make your own tri-fold visual and a mini book for Jacob's dream. We also discussed Jacob working for his Uncle Laban and marrying Leah, then Rachel. Next week's lesson will have several choices to print Jacob's family and who his children connect to. Review: Last we talked about Isaac and Rebekah. After 20 years of being married, they finally had twins. The oldest was Esau and the youngest was Jacob. Esau was hairy and liked to hunt. Jacob liked to stay in the tent. Rebekah loved him the most, and Isaac loved Esau the best. When Isaac was old, he decided to give the birthright to his oldest son Esau. When Rebekah overheard this, she told Jacob to pretend to be his brother. Rebekah cooked the food, covered Jacob’s hands and neck with goat fur and Jacob went in to see his dad. Well, Isaac gave the blessing to Jacob and when Esau went in to see Isaac and was told that his brother had already gotten the blessing, Esau was so angry, he wanted to kill Jacob! Today's lesson is found in Genesis 28:11-29:27. Isaac and Rebekah decided to send Jacob to her brother’s house to find a wife who believed in God. They didn’t want him to marry someone that worshipped idols. Rebekah also wanted Jacob to get away from his brother. Jacob traveled and when the sun had gone down, he stopped for the night. And Jacob took a stone and put it under his head for a pillow. And that’s where he laid down to sleep. Jacob began to have a dream. There was a ladder on the earth, and it reached up into heaven. The angels of God were going up and down the ladder. God stood above the ladder and told Jacob that He is the God of Abraham and of Isaac. This place you are sleeping will be given to you and your descendants. You will have descendants spread all around the earth and I will bless your family. God told Jacob He would always be with him and protect him. God told Jacob that his descendants will be like the dust of the earth... that's a lot of descendants! (Genesis 28:14) Remember, God had told Abraham his descendants will be like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. When Jacob woke up early the next morning, he said surely God is in this place and I didn’t even know it! Jacob took the stone that he had used for a pillow and stood it up like a pillar. He poured oil on the top of it. Jacob called the place Bethel which means ‘House of God’. It had been called Luz before. His grandfather Abraham had been in that same place 160 years before. Jacob continued on his journey. He came to Haran where his Uncle Laban lived. Jacob was at a well and asked the other men there if they knew Laban. They said “Yes, we do and there is his daughter Rachel coming with the sheep.” They rolled the stone away from the well so the sheep could drink. Jacob told Rachel who he was, and she went to tell her father. Laban came running to meet him. Jacob stayed with them for a month. When Laban asked Jacob what he wanted for working the past month, he said he would stay and work for 7 years if he could marry Rachel. Leah was the older sister, but he fell in love with the beautiful, younger Rachel. (Read Genesis 29:18-20) They agreed to this, and Jacob loved her so much, it didn’t seem like 7 years! When the 7 years of working were over, Jacob asked Laban to be allowed to marry Rachel. Laban had a feast for the wedding but sent Leah into Jacob instead. Remember, they wore veils and wore a lot of clothes then. In the morning when Jacob saw that it was not Rachel, he asked Laban: “Why have you done this?” Laban told Jacob that the oldest daughter needed to be married first. That was the custom of the country. Jacob stayed with Leah for a week, and then he had to work another 7 years to marry Rachel! Oh, he was not happy. He was tricked! Almost liked he had tricked his brother Esau! Yes, Jacob had 2 wives, but God allowed that back then so people could populate the earth. God didn’t like it, but He put up with it. The New Testament says to be faithful to one wife. Next week, we will study more about Jacob and his family and his 12 sons! For my visual today, I used a Tri-Fold Science Board for the background. I painted the stars and grass. I used Balsa wood sticks (1/8 x 1/2 36") to make the ladder. Then I used the angel patterns in the download to cut the angels from black cardstock. I used felt for the grass and my David doll. I added stones and 'brown felt blanket'. The stone for Jacob's pillow is a longer one with a flat bottom that I stood up to show Jacob turning it into a pillar and anointing it. Keep in mind, you can use the printables on a bulletin board, or it would look great on a door! You can print most of what you need here. Click here to download the updated visuals for Jacob's Ladder in Genesis 28. Click here to download the pictures to color for Jacob's Ladder in Genesis 28. Today's project is a fill in the blank mini book. It is about Jacob leaving home and about his dream. You can print it here. You can find the instructions on how to fold the book here. Click here to print. You can print all the Genesis worksheets here. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. Here is the cut & glue worksheet that can be used by itself, or with the lapbook printables. Here are the lapbook printables: Lapbook # 1 Lapbook #2 Lapbook #3 See all the Genesis cut and paste worksheets and lapbook printables here. Yah! Jacob's Ladder was featured week 31 @
A 5 minute summary of Genesis 30. Genesis 30 contains a record of Jacob’s children with Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah. The end of the chapter documents how Jacob asked Laban for the speckled and spotted animals in his herd and bred them until he became very wealthy.
After Laban left, Jacob also left the hill country of Gilead and went to see his brother Esau who lived in Edom. Esau was living in the area called Seir in the hill country of Edom, so Jacob sent m…
Today's lesson is continuing with Jacob and his family. We will discuss his leaving Laban with Leah and Rachel and his children. He wrestles an angel and sees Esau again. We also touch on his twelve sons. We will finish Genesis in the next three weeks studying Joseph. Review: Abraham and Sarah had Isaac and God promised Abraham that he would have as many descendants as there were stars in the sky. So, through Abraham, his son Isaac married Rebekah and they had twins named Esau and Jacob. Jacob had 2 wives, but God allowed that back then so people could populate the earth. God didn’t like it, but He put up with it. The New Testament says to be faithful to one wife. Today's lesson is found in Genesis 29-32. We are going to learn more about Jacob and his family. Jacob worked for their father, Laban for 20 years. Jacob told Laban he wanted to leave and asked for wages for the time worked. Jacob said that the animals had done well under his care. They came to an agreement and Jacob picked the animals from Laban’s flock that he wanted. Jacob told Leah and Rachel that God talked to him and told him to go back to his birthplace in Canaan. In the morning, they prepared to leave. Jacob gathered up everything that was theirs, including all the animals that he had earned working for Laban. The whole family rode camels to travel back to Jacob’s home. Laban didn't want Jacob to take his daughters and grandchildren away from him, so Jacob snuck away in the morning while Laban was out in the field sheering the sheep. Laban caught up with Jacob and his family while they were traveling and, even though Laban wasn't happy that they were leaving, Laban and Jacob made an agreement not to argue about it. It was an interesting trip! Jacob was told that his brother Esau was close by with a lot of people. That terrified Jacob because he was afraid that Esau still wanted to kill him because Jacob had tricked Esau. That night, Jacob sent everyone, including his eleven sons, across the river ahead of him. That left Jacob alone. During the night, Jacob wrestled with a Man! (Genesis 32:24) And in the morning, Jacob said, “It’s morning, let’s quit.” Jacob found out it was an angel he’d been wrestling with! The angel said that Jacob's name wouldn’t be Jacob anymore, it would be Israel now. (Original text means angel, messenger from God. This is one of the scriptures that I use to teach the children that angels do not have wings. If the angel had wings, Jacob would have felt them and known who he was wrestling. Cherubim and Seraphim's being different from an angel. Since the word angel means messenger, and they did/do different jobs than being a messenger for God. And, BTW, all the angels in the Bible are men.) When Jacob looked up, he saw Esau! But Esau told him not to worry; he had enough and didn’t want anything from Jacob. Everyone was brought before Esau, and he met Jacob’s family. They left in peace and stopped in Bethel, where Jacob had the dream on his way to visit Laban. Just after that, Rachel gave birth to Jacob's last son. She died but the baby lived, and Jacob named him Benjamin. Jacob traveled farther and pitched his tent. (chap. 35) Click here to download the updated visuals. Visuals include when Jacob leaves home and has his family in Genesis 28-30. All are not shown. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Click here to download the updated visuals for Genesis 31-33. Visuals include Jacob leaving Laban's with his family, meeting Esau again and his name change. Not all are shown. Click here to download the pictures to color. Click on the family chart to download. Jacob had 12 sons and one daughter. Her name was Dinah. One of the sons was named Joseph. Moses finishes up the book of Genesis with the life of him. We will study Joseph the next couple of weeks. There are choices for today's project. You can print the above file folder game. The choices for this are whether or not you want the sons numbered. The cards are the same for the FFG and the next project. What you print will depend on how you prefer to use the cards. You can print the FFG here: with #'s w/o #'s If you do not want a FFG, you can print this version. It has a box to store the cards in. There is also the labeled mats you see in the above left to place the correct cards on, They are in black font and I printed on colored paper. You can print them here: with #'s W/O #'s This is a worksheet for the kids to draw a line from the child to the correct mother. Click on chart to print. Click here to print. You can print all the Genesis worksheets here. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. Here is the cut & glue worksheet that can be used by itself, or with the lapbook printables. Here are the lapbook printables: lapbook #1 Lapbook #2 Lapbook #3 See all the Genesis cut and paste worksheets and lapbook printables here. I have another post with ideas and printables for the 12 Sons/12 Tribes. You can find it here.
Hero resources for the kids ministry lesson on Jacob and Esau and the birthright stew. High quality graphic, colouring pages, and take home card.
This week's lesson is Jacob's Ladder. There are printables to make your own tri-fold visual and a mini book for Jacob's dream. We also discussed Jacob working for his Uncle Laban and marrying Leah, then Rachel. Next week's lesson will have several choices to print Jacob's family and who his children connect to. Review: Last we talked about Isaac and Rebekah. After 20 years of being married, they finally had twins. The oldest was Esau and the youngest was Jacob. Esau was hairy and liked to hunt. Jacob liked to stay in the tent. Rebekah loved him the most, and Isaac loved Esau the best. When Isaac was old, he decided to give the birthright to his oldest son Esau. When Rebekah overheard this, she told Jacob to pretend to be his brother. Rebekah cooked the food, covered Jacob’s hands and neck with goat fur and Jacob went in to see his dad. Well, Isaac gave the blessing to Jacob and when Esau went in to see Isaac and was told that his brother had already gotten the blessing, Esau was so angry, he wanted to kill Jacob! Today's lesson is found in Genesis 28:11-29:27. Isaac and Rebekah decided to send Jacob to her brother’s house to find a wife who believed in God. They didn’t want him to marry someone that worshipped idols. Rebekah also wanted Jacob to get away from his brother. Jacob traveled and when the sun had gone down, he stopped for the night. And Jacob took a stone and put it under his head for a pillow. And that’s where he laid down to sleep. Jacob began to have a dream. There was a ladder on the earth, and it reached up into heaven. The angels of God were going up and down the ladder. God stood above the ladder and told Jacob that He is the God of Abraham and of Isaac. This place you are sleeping will be given to you and your descendants. You will have descendants spread all around the earth and I will bless your family. God told Jacob He would always be with him and protect him. God told Jacob that his descendants will be like the dust of the earth... that's a lot of descendants! (Genesis 28:14) Remember, God had told Abraham his descendants will be like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. When Jacob woke up early the next morning, he said surely God is in this place and I didn’t even know it! Jacob took the stone that he had used for a pillow and stood it up like a pillar. He poured oil on the top of it. Jacob called the place Bethel which means ‘House of God’. It had been called Luz before. His grandfather Abraham had been in that same place 160 years before. Jacob continued on his journey. He came to Haran where his Uncle Laban lived. Jacob was at a well and asked the other men there if they knew Laban. They said “Yes, we do and there is his daughter Rachel coming with the sheep.” They rolled the stone away from the well so the sheep could drink. Jacob told Rachel who he was, and she went to tell her father. Laban came running to meet him. Jacob stayed with them for a month. When Laban asked Jacob what he wanted for working the past month, he said he would stay and work for 7 years if he could marry Rachel. Leah was the older sister, but he fell in love with the beautiful, younger Rachel. (Read Genesis 29:18-20) They agreed to this, and Jacob loved her so much, it didn’t seem like 7 years! When the 7 years of working were over, Jacob asked Laban to be allowed to marry Rachel. Laban had a feast for the wedding but sent Leah into Jacob instead. Remember, they wore veils and wore a lot of clothes then. In the morning when Jacob saw that it was not Rachel, he asked Laban: “Why have you done this?” Laban told Jacob that the oldest daughter needed to be married first. That was the custom of the country. Jacob stayed with Leah for a week, and then he had to work another 7 years to marry Rachel! Oh, he was not happy. He was tricked! Almost liked he had tricked his brother Esau! Yes, Jacob had 2 wives, but God allowed that back then so people could populate the earth. God didn’t like it, but He put up with it. The New Testament says to be faithful to one wife. Next week, we will study more about Jacob and his family and his 12 sons! For my visual today, I used a Tri-Fold Science Board for the background. I painted the stars and grass. I used Balsa wood sticks (1/8 x 1/2 36") to make the ladder. Then I used the angel patterns in the download to cut the angels from black cardstock. I used felt for the grass and my David doll. I added stones and 'brown felt blanket'. The stone for Jacob's pillow is a longer one with a flat bottom that I stood up to show Jacob turning it into a pillar and anointing it. Keep in mind, you can use the printables on a bulletin board, or it would look great on a door! You can print most of what you need here. Click here to download the updated visuals for Jacob's Ladder in Genesis 28. Click here to download the pictures to color for Jacob's Ladder in Genesis 28. Today's project is a fill in the blank mini book. It is about Jacob leaving home and about his dream. You can print it here. You can find the instructions on how to fold the book here. Click here to print. You can print all the Genesis worksheets here. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. Here is the cut & glue worksheet that can be used by itself, or with the lapbook printables. Here are the lapbook printables: Lapbook # 1 Lapbook #2 Lapbook #3 See all the Genesis cut and paste worksheets and lapbook printables here. Yah! Jacob's Ladder was featured week 31 @
We started off reviewing Lesson 15 using last week’s lesson aids and asking the little ones what they remembered. We talked about Isaac and Rebekah’s twin boys, Esau and Jacob, and how they were so different despite being twins. We asked them what the two brothers liked to do, about the special privileges Esau had […]
Références : Genèse 27:1-40 Isaac était devenu vieux. Sa vue avait tellement baissé qu’il n’y voyait plus. Il appela son fils aîné : « Ésaü ! » – « Oui, répondit-il, je t’écoute. » Isaac reprit :…
Isaac, son of Abraham, needed a wife but did not want to find one among the Canaanites, where they were living. A servant was sent to find a wife. When he arrived in Abraham’s homeland, the servant prayed for guidance. Rebekah appeared before the man finished praying. She offered water to the servant and his camels. Then they followed her […]
Life doesn't always give us what we think we deserve. When things don't go our way, we sometimes develop coping mechanisms, things we implement to deal with stress or difficult situations. Some coping mechanisms are good and healthy but many are investments in future stress and difficulty. For instance, a healthy coping mechanism would be to pray, recall memorized scripture or contact a close friend. Unhealthy coping mechanisms would include tantrums, finding comfort in alcohol or drug abuse, resorting to violence, withdrawing or employing deception. It's the difference between resting in God or wrestling with God. In Genesis, we meet Jacob, a guy who finds a way to get by on his wit and wisdom. Jacob, the second son of Isaac, not only manages to gain the birthright of the firstborn son, he also swindles his older brother out of the blessing of the firstborn. God had a plan for Jacob and placed a strong calling on his life, but Jacob chose to carve his own path through life, ignoring God. Jacob spends the early part of his life employing his favorite coping mechanism, outsmarting those around him. Jacob does not realize he is wrestling with God. Jacob was not a God hater nor an atheist. Jacob believed God existed and probably considered himself a follower. Like many today who acknowledge God and consider themself Christian, Jacob mostly ignored God and did things his own way. The key component of faith missing for Jacob was a personal relationship with God. In the early part of Jacob's life we see him referring to God in terms like, "the God of Abraham" or the "God of my fathers", it is not until Jacob has a real encounter with God that he takes ownership of a relationship. Jacob learned to move from wrestling to resting. So often, as a minister, people ask me to pray for them or for a specific situation. Often I get the sense of the unspoken, "can you pray to your God on my behalf?" Though no one has actually expressed it this way, I sense it is an underlying issue for many who do not perceive God as their God. I once told someone who asked for prayer, "I will pray for you if you promise to also pray." The response I received was unexpected, "you mean, actually, like get on my knees and talk to God?" I was totally not expecting such a response. This was a person who acknowledged God and probably if asked, would say they were good with God, yet the idea of actually talking to God was completely foreign. Similarly, I know President Trump exists, I know things about him and also have heard many things about him which may or may not be true. I even follow him on Twitter. None of these things equals a relationship. I would be a fool to claim to know President Trump. Most of what I know, or think I know of him, comes from the press. This, unfortunately, is many people's experience with God. The difference is, Donald Trump has no awareness of my existence and is not the slightest bit interested in me as an individual. I have no ability to engage Donald Trump in a conversation. God, on the other hand, knows me and loves me individually. God allows me the privilege of speaking to Him and hearing from Him and knowing Him. Jacob managed to get by on his own until he couldn't... Jacob's coping mechanisms alienated him from his family and the family of his wives. Jacob found himself isolated and vulnerable because he chose to keep God at arm's length. Only when Jacob realized he was out of tricks did he surrender and call out to God. When all seemed hopeless, Jacob found hope in God, even as he realized he had been fighting against God his whole life. Jacob went from knowing about God to knowing God. From wrestling to resting. God changed Jacob's name to Israel and Israel took possession of his relationship with God. Are you Jacob or Israel? Do you know about God or do you know God? Are you wrestling against God or resting in His Lordship. God wants you to know Him, to have a rich and deep relationship with Him, through His Son Jesus Christ. The only way to know someone is to spend time with them. God gives us prayer, His Word, worship and fellowship with other believers as methods to get to know Him. Would you turn down tea with the Queen of England or dinner with with a King? Of course not, but everyday, we pass up opportunities to spend time with the King of Kings. What is your coping mechanism and how's it working out for you? May I suggest getting to know the One who not only helps you cope but will make you more than an overcomer. God has so much more for us than just getting by. Unless you take the time to know Him, you'll never know how meaningful life can be. Jesus isn't merely dying to spend time with you, He actually did. Get to know the risen Savior and find your special purpose. Stop wrestling and rest. Now, go live as Christ... and give the devil hell!
After Judah begged Joseph for Benjamin, Joseph couldn’t control himself anymore and in front of all his attendants he cried out, “Have everyone leave me!” So there wasn’t anyone with Joseph when he…
I have to admit that there is something about Leah that resonates with me. Whether it is the similarity in our names or the desire to be loved, my heart always goes out to Leah. So, on to Leah’s story. Jacob has arrived in Haran and already met Rachel, Leah’s younger sister, when she {Rachel} was tending to the sheep. We […]
During today's blog post, I'm going to share with you a Sunday school lesson that's perfect for Genesis 12-13, God's promise to Abraham.
