Genesis 33 (Alter)

1. When Jacob sees Esau accompanied by 400 men he divides his children between Leah
and Rachel and puts Rachel and Joseph last. This order shows how he puts some
people at a priority as he sees others as property.
2. Esau greets Jacob by embracing him. He treats him with kindness as opposed to how
Jacob expected him to treat him. After Jacob offers Esau what he has, Esau tells him he
has enough and Jacob can keep what he has.
3. Jacob treats Esau as his master as he was told to serve his brother for tricking his father.
He tries to bless Esau and give him what he can offer him, as he tries to get Esau's
forgiveness.
4. The quote brings the reader back to when he was wrestling with the stranger as he
means he survived or “came out alive”, both of these being what he feared he wouldnt
be able to do.
5. From the sons of Hamor.

Genesis 34 (Alter)

1. Dinah and Shechem laid together which made Jacob quite upset as Dinah was his
daughter. Hamor, Shechem’s father asked Jacob if he would allow Shechem to have
Dinah’s hand in marriage as it would make them both happy and Jacob and he would be
allied by the marriage of their children. Shechem then asks Dinah’s brothers if he can
have her hand in marriage but the brothers say only once he is circumcised like them will
he be able to have her hand.
2. They say that he cannot be married to her for he is not circumcised.
3. Simeon and Levi took their weapons and killed every man in the city unopposed of who
they were including Shechem and his father. They then took Dinah from his house.
4. They took the town's sheep and cattle, loot, wealth and other possessions as well as
their children and women.
5. Jacob condemns them for making a fool of his name across the lands for the brutalness
they imposed.
6. As a response they ask if their sister should be treated like a whore for her actions.
7. The actions in this story show how the characters do not care about the damage and
effect of rape or how its not the victims fault. It also shows how the characters see
marriage as the man's decision as opposed to the woman’s.

Genesis 35 (Alter)

1. Jacob instructs his household to give up the alien gods they were worshiping, change
their garments and go to Bethelm.
2. Rachel dies while giving childbirth. Her last sons name was Ben-oni but Jacob called him
Benjamin.
 3. Issac is 180 when he dies.

Genesis 36 (Alter)

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Genesis 37 (Alter)

1. Israel loved Joseph the most as he had him in his old age. Joseph was given an
ornamented tunic from Israel or a designed, nice top to wear.
2. Joseph's brothers hated him for they knew he was Jacob's favorite.
3. Joseph pulls a dummy move and tells his brothers that he had dreamt a dream in which
they were all sheath and Joseph's sheath stood up while the others were down and they
all bowed to him, almost as their master. The dream makes his brothers feel as if he
feels like they are less than him.
4. Joseph spoke of another dream in which he was the moon and eleven stars, presumably
his family were bowing to him. This insulted the brothers even more than they already
were and made his father Israel more suspicious of him as it quotes “And his brothers
were jealous of him while his father kept this thing in mind.”
5. Joseph's brothers plan to kill him while he is in the field with them and fling him into a pit
with a beast but Reuben interjects, stating that they must not take his life, rather they
should fling him into a pit with a beast. This is because they can say that they did not lay
one hand on him.
6. After his brothers plan to kill him by throwing him into the pit with the beast in it fails, they
plan to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites. While they are planning to sell him, merchantmen
pick Joseph up and sell him for 20 pieces of silver.
7. The brothers dip his tunic in blood so as to fool Jacob into thinking he has been
devoured by a beast as opossed to being sold into slavery.
8. Jacob cries and mourns for his son for many days, rejecting consolation from any of his
sons or daughters.
9. Joseph is sold into slavery to Potiphar in Egypt. Potiphar is the pharaoh's attendant who
serves him.

Genesis 38 (Alter)

1. Judah and Shua are the parents of Er, Onan and Shela.
2. The Lord postEr to death as he thought that he was evil.
3. Judah tells Onan it his is duty to lay with Er’s wife as he has to carry on his seed.
4. Onan “Wastes his seed to the ground” because he knew the child he would conceive
wouldn’t be his.
5. The lord punishes Onan for the act by putting him to death, as in the lords eyes he was
evil as well. This suggests that carrying on children was what was seen as most
important in society at the time.
 6. Judah had mistaken Tamar for “a whore” and asked her to lay with him.
7. Judah commands that Tamar be burned to death for “playing the whore” and conceiving.
9. The midwife ties the scarlet ribbon to the twin who was born first. The firstborn twins
name was Perez.
10. The story of Tamar shows how at the time, women were valued as nothing but vessels to
carry children whether they liked it or not and had they disobeyed one rule or another about
staying with one man they would be killed.