Year 1 - May

Year 1, May - Jacob and Joseph

Year 1, May 1, Jacob Fears Esau – Genesis 32:1-12

Questions

What did Jacob call the place where the angels of God met him?

Who did Jacob send messengers to?

How many men did Esau have with him?

Who did Jacob turn to for help?

Year 1, May 2, Jacob Fears Esau – Genesis 32:13-21

Questions

What were the servants driving the animals to say to Esau about Jacob?

What did Jacob think in verse 20?

Where did Jacob stay that night?

Year 1, May 3, Jacob Wrestles With God – Genesis 32:22-32

Questions

Who did Jacob send across the Jabbok?

How long did Jacob wrestle with the man?

What did the man change Jacob’s name to?

What did Jacob call that place? Why?

Year 1, May 4, Jacob Meets Esau – Genesis 33:1-11

Questions

How did Jacob divide up his wives and children?

How many times did Jacob bow to his brother Esau?

How did Esau greet Jacob?

Did Esau keep Jacob’s gift?

Year 1, May 5, Jacob – Genesis 33:12-20

Questions

What did Jacob say would happen if the flocks were driven too hard?

What did Esau want to leave with Jacob?

Where did Jacob journey to and build a house?

What did he call the altar he erected?

Year 1, May 6, Joseph's Dreams – Genesis 37:1-11

Questions

Which son did Jacob love best?

How did his brothers feel about this?

What was his first dream about?

Who bowed down to him in the second dream?

Year 1, May 7, Joseph Sold By His Brothers – Genesis 37:12-24

Questions

What did Israel send Joseph to Shechem for?

Where did Joseph find his brothers?

What did his brothers plot against him?

Who rescued Joseph?

Year 1, May 8, Joseph Sold by His Brothers – Genesis 37:25-36

Questions

Who came past on camels?

How much did Joseph’s brothers sell him for?

What did the brothers do to trick their father?

Who was Joseph sold to in Egypt?

Year 1, May 9, Joseph In Prison – Genesis 40:1-8

Questions

Who was sent to the prison where Joseph was?

Who was angry with them?

What happened one night?

Who did Joseph say knew what their dreams meant?

Year 1, May 10, Joseph Interprets the Cupbearer's Dream – Genesis 40:9-15

Questions

What was the cupbearer’s dream about?

What did the three branches mean?

What would Pharaoh do to the chief cupbearer?

What did Joseph ask in return?

Year 1, May 11, Joseph Interprets the Baker's Dream – Genesis 40:16-23

Questions

How many baskets were on the chief baker’s head?

What ate the food?

What did Pharaoh do to the chief baker?

Did the chief cupbearer remember Joseph?

Year 1, May 12, Joseph – Genesis 41:1-13

Questions

How many cows did Pharaoh dream about?

What did the thin, blighted ears of grain do to the plump ones?

Could anyone tell Pharaoh what this meant?

How long did it take the chief cupbearer to remember Joseph? Verse 1

Year 1, May 13, Joseph – Genesis 41:14-24

Questions

What did Joseph do before he came in before Pharaoh?

Who did Joseph say would give Pharaoh an answer to his dream?

What did Pharaoh say about the thin ugly cows in verse 21?

Who could not explain the dreams to Pharaoh?

Year 1, May 14, Joseph – Genesis 41:25-36

Questions

What were the seven good cows and ears?

How many years of famine were to come?

What did the doubling of the dream mean?

What did Joseph suggest Pharaoh do during the years of plenty?

Year 1, May 15, Joseph – Genesis 41:37-45

Questions

How did Pharaoh and his servants feel about Joseph’s plan?

Who did they think should be in charge?

What did Pharaoh give Joseph?

Who became Joseph’s wife?

Year 1, May 16, Joseph – Genesis 41:46-55

Questions

How old was Joseph?

How much food did Joseph gather in the years of plenty?

What did Joseph call his two sons?

Who sent the hungry people to Joseph?

Year 1, May 17, Joseph – Genesis 41:56-42:5

Questions

How many Egyptians did Joseph sell food to?

Who else came to buy grain?

Who heard that there was grain for sale in Egypt?

How many sons of Israel came to buy grain in Egypt?

Year 1, May 18, Joseph – Genesis 42:6-11

Questions

How did Israel’s sons greet Joseph?

How did Joseph treat them?

What did Joseph remember?

What did his brothers call Joseph in verse 10?

Year 1, May 19, Joseph – Genesis 42:12-17

Questions

What did Joseph accuse his brothers of?

What did they tell him about their missing brother?

Who did Joseph say they must bring to him?

How long did he lock them up for?

Year 1, May 20, Joseph – Genesis 42:18-25

Questions

Who did Joseph fear?

How would he know they were honest men?

What did Joseph do when he heard the brothers blaming each other?

Which brother stayed in custody?

Year 1, May 21, Joseph – Genesis 42:26-34

Questions

What did one brother find in the mouth of his sack?

How did all the brothers feel about this?

When they told Jacob, what did they call Joseph?

What demand by Joseph did the brothers tell their father? Verse 34

Year 1, May 22, Joseph – Genesis 42:35-38

Questions

What did they all find when they emptied their sacks?

How did both father and brothers feel?

Which brother offered his sons in place of Benjamin?

Did Jacob agree to send Benjamin?

Year 1, May 23, Joseph – Genesis 43:1-10

Questions

How bad was the famine?

How did Israel think the brothers had treated him badly?

What did “the man” ask the brothers about their family?

Who pledged Benjamin’s safety?

Year 1, May 24, Joseph – Genesis 43:11-15

Questions

Name three presents Israel sent for the man in charge of Egypt.

How much money did he tell them to take?

Who did Israel trust for their safety?

Who did the brothers take with them this time?

Year 1, May 25, Joseph – Genesis 43:16-25

Questions

What order did Joseph give his steward when he saw Benjamin?

Where did the steward take the men?

What were they worried about?

What did the steward tell them about God?

Year 1, May 26, Joseph – Genesis 43:26-34

Questions

What did the brothers take in to Joseph’s house?

Who did Joseph ask them about particularly?

Why did Joseph rush out when he looked at Benjamin?

How did Joseph treat Benjamin especially at the meal?

Year 1, May 27, Joseph – Genesis 44:1-13

Questions

What did Joseph tell his steward to put in Benjamin’s sack?

How far had the brothers gone when Joseph sent his steward after them?

What did they agree to do with anyone who had stolen Joseph’s cup?

What did they do when they found the cup?

Year 1, May 28, Joseph – Genesis 44:14-23

Questions

What did the brothers do when they came back to Joseph?

Who did Joseph say had to stay and be his servant?

What did Judah say about his brother Joseph?

Why was Benjamin so special?

Year 1, May 29, Joseph – Genesis 44:24-34

Questions

What did Judah call his father Jacob in verse 24?

What did Jacob think had happened to Joseph?

What was Judah afraid would happen to his father without Benjamin?

What offer did Judah make so that Benjamin could go home?

Year 1, May 30, Joseph – Genesis 45:1-15

Questions

How loud did Joseph weep?

Why did God send Joseph to Egypt?

What did he tell his brothers to hurry and do?

How did Joseph show that he had forgiven his brothers?

Year 1, May 31, Joseph – Genesis 45:16-28

Questions

How did Pharaoh feel about Joseph’s family coming?

Who did Joseph give the most gifts to?

What did Joseph tell his brothers not to do on the way?

What made Israel believe that Joseph was ruler of Egypt?