Genesis chapter 29

We’re starting a new series on Sunday evening, looking at the 12 sons of Jacob. What I’d like to do is just look at some of the instances where those sons are mentioned in the book of Genesis, and just to have a look at kind of their birth and their involvement in the book of Genesis.

Then we’ll have a look at what And the tribe itself did in the wilderness wanderings and what happened when they settled in the land, and we’re going to have a look at some of the famous faces from those tribes, just to see what kind of characters we had. Then through the bible from each particular tribe by kind of a way of background to all of this. Obviously we refer to these as the 12 tribes of Israel, and we recognize how prominent those 12 tribes are, but oftentimes we don’t think of them as basically just the 12 sons of Jacob, because the sons and the tribes seem to be synonymous.