GENESIS

LESSON FIFTY-EIGHT

(Chapter 48)

1. How old are Manasseh and Ephraim, approximately? (Gen. 47:28, 41;50)

2. What happened at Luz? (Gen. 28:12)

3. What did Luz become? (Gen. 28:19-22)

4. Where are Jacob's thoughts at this time of sickness?

5. Why would Abraham, Isaac and Jacob care whether or not their descendants became a great nation? (Matt. 22:31-32); (Heb. 12:1)

6. Why did Jacob want Manasseh and Ephraim to be counted as his own sons?

7. Do you suppose Jacob thought about how he had deceived his father Isaac?

8. Does it seem that God never gives the firstborn his due?