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Old Testament
Genesis 31 to 44
Read this coming week:
Jan 17 Gen 31, Ps 17, Matt 20 Jan 18 Gen 32‐33, Ps 18:1‐24, Matt 21 Jan
19 Gen 34‐35, Ps 18:25‐50, Matt 22 Jan 20 Gen 36, Ps 19:1‐6, Matt 23 Jan
21 Gen 37‐38, Ps 19:7‐14, Matt 24 Jan 22 Gen 39‐40, Ps 20, Matt 25 Jan
23 Gen 41‐42, Ps 21, Matt 26 Jan 24 Gen 43‐44, Ps 22:1‐18, Matt 27‐28
Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Genesis 31 to 44. Answer
the following:
• Why does Jacob want to leave Laban?
• What is Jacob’s relationship with Esau like before
and after the wrestling incident at the Jabbok
river?
• How many times is Jacob renamed “Israel”?
• Esau’s descendants became which country?
• How many dreams did Joseph have that told him
that his family would bow down to him?
• What is Joseph’s role in Potiphar’s house?
• What the ways that Joseph tests his brothers?
Joseph’s Historicity
One of the benefits of Joseph’s story of being in Egypt is
that it provides extra-Biblical (outside of the Bible)
evidence for the validity of the story of Joseph, and
therefore, to the whole book itself – or at least the
Torah. Archeologists have confirmed the following
which mirror Joseph’s story: