Why was the money weighed?

What weight is a shekel?

How much silver was there then in four hundred shekels ?

17, 18. How are the field and the cave described?

What were sold together with the field? What is said about the field and cave, and

the trees?

What is the meaning of made sure?

In whose presence was this done?

19. After this, what did Abraham do? 20. By whom were the field and cave made sure to Abraham?

Chap. xxv. verses 7-11.

7. What was the age of Abraham? Did he marry again after Sarah's death? ver. 1. Had he other children?

8. What is here said of Abraham?

What is meant by "gave up the ghost?"
How was he gathered to his people?

Shall we all soon be called to the grave?

How should we regard this world which we must so soon leave for ever?

Where does the soul go after death?

Is Abraham ever spoken of in the Bible as being in heaven? Luke xvi. 23.

9, 10. Who buried Abraham?

Where was he buried?

Who were afterwards buried in the same place? Ger. xlix. 31, and chap. 1. 13.

Shall the bodies of believers for ever remain in the dust of the grave?

Repeat Job xix. 25, 26.

Shall not the bodies of unbelievers, careless, ungodly people, also be raised and see the Redeemer ?

Repeat Rev. i. 7.

11. After the death of Abraham, whom did God bless?

Does God ever forget his promises to his people? Is. liv. 10.

Where did Isaac dwell?

Whom had he married? Gen. xxiv. 67.

LESSON XVI.

Genesis, Chap. xxviii. verses 1—5, 10—22.
Jacob's Vision.

1. Whom did Isaac call?

Who was Jacob?

What was the name of Isaac's other son?
Which was the eldest?

What charge did Isaac give Jacob?

Why did Isaac give this charge to his son? Deut. vii. 3, 4.

How had Esau offended his father and mother? Gen. xxvi. 34, 35.

What was the design of God in raising up Abraham's family, and keeping them distinct or separate from

others?

2. To what place did Isaac tell Jacob to go?

Where was Padan-aram?

To whose house was Jacob directed to go?

Who was Jacob's mother? Gen. xxv. 20.

Whose son was Bethuel? Gen. xxii. 20, 22.

From whose daughters was Jacob to take a wife?

What is written in 2 Cor. vi. 14-16, respecting the union of believers with unbelievers ?

Why are such unions dangerous and wrong? 3. What blessing did Isaac pray for? What is meant by almighty?

What does the Lord say of himself in Exod. vi. 3? 4. What peculiar blessing did he ask for? Was this blessing asked for Jacob alone? What did he pray that Jacob might inherit?

To whom had God given this land?

How was it that Jacob, being the younger son, received all these privileges? See Gen. xxv. 29-34, and chap. xxvii. 1-40.

5. What did Isaac then do?

Why did Jacob's mother wish to send him away at this time? See Gen. xxvii, 41–46.

Where did Jacob go?

To whom?

Whose son was Laban?

Of what country was Bethuel?
Whose brother was he?

Verses 10-22.

10. From what place did Jacob go out? Towards what place did he go?

What circumstances, respecting Abraham's family, took place at Haran?

11. What is said about Jacob being at a certain place?

What is here meant by lighted?

Why did he stay there all night?
What did he take for his pillow?

What did he then do?

Why was not Jacob afraid to lie down to sleep, alone, and without shelter? Ps. iv. 8.

12. What did Jacob dream about while he was sleeping there?

Where was the ladder set, which he saw? To what place did the top of it reach? Who were ascending and descending upon it?

What is meant by ascending and descending?

Was this a common dream, or a special vision from God? What is said of the angels in Heb. i. 14?

What is the only way of communication between heaven and earth now?

What did Jesus say of himself to Nathaniel, in John i. 51 ?

Through whose mediation alone are any blessings sent from God to his people?

13. Who stood above the ladder?

What did the Lord declare himself to be? What did God promise to give to Jacob and his seed?

Was this the same land that had been promised to Abraham and to Isaac ?

What is written in Ps. cv. 8-11 ?

14. What did the Lord promise concerning the number of Jacob's seed?

How should his family be spread abroad? What blessed and glorious promise, respecting his seed, did the Lord repeat to him?

Have these promises been fulfilled to the house of Jacob ?

15. Did God promise to be with Jacob? Where would he keep him?

To what place would he bring him again? What does the Lord say about being with him?

What is said of God in reference to this promised blessing in Numb. xxiii. 19.

16. When Jacob awaked out of his sleep, what did he say?

17. How was Jacob affected? What did he say of that place?

Why should we be filled with "reverence and godly fear," when in the presence and house of God? 18. When did Jacob rise up?

How did he use the stone that he had put for his pillow?

What is meant by a pillar?

What did he pour upon the top of it?
Why did he set up this pillar?

What did anointing with oil represent? See Ex. xxx. 26, 29.

19. What did Jacob call the name of that place?

What is meant by the word Beth-el?

What was the name of that place at the first? 20, 21. What did Jacob then do?

What did he say?

Did he require more than food and raiment from God?

With what are the people of God exhorted to be content in 1 Tim. vi. 8?

To what place did he desire to return in peace?

What was his vow, provided God so blessed

him?