Woman of the Bible - Jacob's Wives: Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah
1. Where did Isaac send Jacob to find a wife? Gen. 28:1-2 _________________________________
2. Did Jacob obey? Gen. 29:1 ____________
3. Where did Jacob find people from Haran? Gen. 29:2-4 __________________________________
4. Who did Jacob ask if they knew? Gen. 29:5 ___________________________________________
5. Did they know Laban and how he was doing? Gen. 29:5-6 _______________________________
6. Who did they point out was coming to water the sheep? Gen. 29:6 _______________________
7. What did Jacob want them to do? Gen. 29:7 __________________________________________
8. Why didn't they want to water the sheep? Gen. 29:8 ___________________________________
9. Who arrived as Jacob was still speaking? Gen. 29:9 _____________________________________
10. What did Jacob do when he saw Rachel? Gen. 29:10 ____________________________________
11. Then what did Jacob do? Gen. 29:11 ________________________________________________
12. What did Jacob tell Rachel? Gen. 29:12 ______________________________________________
13. What was Rachel's response? Gen. 29:12 ____________________________________________
14. What was Laban's response to Rachel's report? Gen. 29:13-14 ___________________________
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15. After a month's stay, what did Laban ask Jacob? Gen. 29:15 _____________________________
16. How many daughters did Laban have? Gen. 29:16 _____________________________________
17. What were the daughter's names? Gen. 29:16 ________________________________________
18. What was Leah like? Gen. 29:17 ____________________________________________________
19. What was Rachel like? Gen. 29:17 __________________________________________________
20. Who did Jacob love? Gen. 29:18 ____________________________________________________
21. What did Jacob propose? Gen. 29:18 ________________________________________________
22. What did Laban think of the proposal? Gen. 29:19 _____________________________________
23. How did the 7 years pass for Jacob? Gen. 29:20 _______________________________________
24. After 7 years what did Jacob ask Laban? Gen. 29:21 ____________________________________
25. What did Laban do? Gen. 29:22-23 __________________________________________________
26. Who did Laban give to Leah as a maid? Gen. 29:24
27. How did Jacob respond in the morning when he realized he had been given Leah? Gen. 29:25
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28. How did Laban explain his actions? Gen. 29:26 ________________________________________
29. What did Laban propose? Gen. 29:27 ________________________________________________
30. What did Jacob do? Gen. 29:28 _____________________________________________________
31. After the week, what did Laban do? Gen. 29:28 _______________________________________
32. Who did Laban give Rachel as a maid? Gen. 29:29 ______________________________________
33. Who did Jacob love more? Gen. 29:30 _______________________________________________
34. How many more years did Jacob serve for Rachel? Gen. 29:30 ____________________________
35. What did the Lord see? Gen. 29:31 __________________________________________________
36. How did the Lord respond? Gen. 29:31 ______________________________________________
37. What did Leah name her first son? Why? Gen. 29:32 ___________________________________
38. What did Leah hope? Gen. 29:32 ___________________________________________________
39. What did Leah name her second son? Gen. 29:33 ______________________________________
40. Why did she feel God gave her another son? Gen. 29:33 ________________________________
41. What did Leah name her third son? Gen. 29:34 ________________________________________
42. What did she hope the birth of this child would do? Gen. 29:34 ___________________________
43. What did she name her fourth son? Why? Gen. 29:35 __________________________________
44. What happened after the fourth son's birth? Gen. 29:35 ________________________________
45. How did Rachel respond to being barren and Leah having all those sons? Gen. 30:1___________
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46. How did Jacob respond to Rachel? Gen. 30:2 __________________________________________
47. Who did Jacob say was responsible for her barren condition? Gen. 30:2 ____________________
48. What was Rachel's solution? Gen. 30:3 ______________________________________________
49. How did Jacob respond to Rachel's idea? Gen. 30:4 ____________________________________
50. Did the plan work? Gen. 30:5 ______________________________________________________
51. How did Rachel respond? Gen. 30:6 _________________________________________________
52. What did Rachel name the baby? Gen. 30:6___________________________________________
53. What happened next? Gen. 30:7 ___________________________________________________
54. How did Rachel feel now? Gen. 30:8 ________________________________________________
55. What did she name this child? Gen. 30:8 _____________________________________________
56. How did Leah respond? Gen. 30:9 __________________________________________________
57. Did Leah's plan work? Gen. 30:10 ___________________________________________________
58. What did Leah name the child? Why? Gen. 30:11 ______________________________________
59. What happened to Zilpah? Gen. 30:12 _______________________________________________
60. What did Leah name the child? Why? Gen. 30:13 ______________________________________
61. What did Reuben find in the field? Gen. 30:14 _________________________________________
62. What did Rachel ask of Leah? Gen. 30:14 _____________________________________________
63. What was Leah's response? Gen. 30:15 ______________________________________________
64. What deal did Rachel make with Leah? Gen. 30:15_____________________________________
65. When Jacob came in from the field what did Leah inform him? Gen. 30:16 __________________
66. Who listened to Leah? Gen. 30:17_______________
67. What was the result? Gen. 30:17 ___________________________________________________
68. What did Leah name her son? Why? Gen. 30:18 _______________________________________
69. What did Leah name her sixth son? Why? Gen. 30:19-20 ________________________________
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70. Who did Leah bear next? Gen. 30:21 ________________________________________________
71. What 3 things did God do for Rachel? Gen. 30:22 ______________________________________
72. What did Rachel say when she bore a son? Gen. 30:23 __________________________________
73. What did she name her son? Why? Gen. 30:24 ________________________________________
74. What did Jacob ask Laban? Gen. 30:25-26 ____________________________________________
75. How did Laban respond? Why? Gen. 30:27 ___________________________________________
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76. What deal did Laban offer Jacob? Gen. 30:28 _________________________________________
77. Why did Laban's livestock increase? Gen. 30:29-30 ____________________________________
78. What was Jacob's question to Laban? Gen. 30:30 ______________________________________
79. What did Jacob want Laban to give him? Gen. 30:31 ____________________________________
80. What did Jacob want as his wages? Gen. 30:32-33 _____________________________________
81. What did Laban do? Gen. 30:34-36 __________________________________________________
82. What did Jacob do so that the flocks produced streaked, speckled and spotted lambs.? Gen. 30:37-39 _______________________________________________________________________
83. What did he do with his flocks? Gen. 30:40 ___________________________________________
84. Why were Jacob's flocks stronger than Laban's? Gen. 30:41-42 ______________________________________________________________________________
85. What happened to Jacob? Gen. 30:43 _______________________________________________
86. How did Laban's sons feel about Jacob? Gen. 31:1-3 __________________________________
87. How did Laban feel about Jacob? Gen. 31:2 __________________________________________
88. What did the Lord tell Jacob? Gen. 31:3 ______________________________________________
89. Who did Jacob call out to the field? Gen. 31:4 _________________________________________
90. What did he tell his wives about their father? Gen. 31:5-8 _______________________________
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91. What did Jacob tell his wives about his God? Gen. 31:5-9 ________________________________
92. How did God speak to Jacob? Gen. 31:10-11 __________________________________________
93. What had God seen? Gen. 31:12 ___________________________________________________
94. How did God identify Himself? Gen. 31:13 ___________________________________________
95. What instructions did God give Jacob? Gen. 31:13 _____________________________________
96. How did Rachel and Leah feel about their father? Gen. 31:14-16 _________________________
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97. How did Rachel and Leah respond to Jacob? Gen. 31:16 ________________________________
98. What did Jacob do? Gen. 31:17-18 _________________________________________________
99. Where had Laban gone? Gen. 31:19 ________________________________________________
100. What did Rachel steal? Gen. 31:19 ________________________________________________
101 . Where did Jacob go? Gen. 31:20-21 _______________________________________________
102. When did Laban hear that Jacob left? Gen. 31:22 ____________________________________
103. How long did it take Laban to catch up to Jacob? Gen. 31:23 ____________________________
104. What warning did Laban receive from God? Gen. 31:24 ________________________________
105, How did Laban approach Jacob? Gen. 31:25-28 ______________________________________
106. What did Laban think was in his power? Gen. 31:29 ___________________________________
107. What question did Laban ask of Jacob? Gen. 31:30 ____________________________________
108. Of what was Jacob afraid? Gen. 31:31 ______________________________________________
109. What did Jacob say should be done to the one who stole Laban's gods? Gen. 31:32 __________
110. Did Laban find his gods? Why not? Gen. 31:33-35 _____________________________________
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111. How did Jacob feel after the search was over? Gen. 31:36-37 ____________________________
112. How many years had Jacob served Laban? Gen. 31:38-41 _______________________________
113. What were the work conditions like for Jacob? Gen. 31:38-41 ___________________________
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114. Who saw the affliction and labor of Jacob and rebuked Laban? Gen. 31:42 _________________
115. How did Laban answer Jacob? Gen. 31:43 ___________________________________________
116. What did Laban want to make with Jacob? Gen. 31:44 _________________________________
117. What did Jacob and his brethren do? Gen. 31:45-46 ___________________________________
118. What did Laban call the heap? Gen. 31:47 ___________________________________________
119. What did Jacob call the heap? Gen. 31:47 ___________________________________________
120. What was the meaning of the heap? Gen. 31:48-52 ____________________________________
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121. Who did Laban call on as judge between them? Gen. 31:54 _____________________________
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122. Who did Jacob swear by? Gen. 31:54 _______________________________________________
123. What did Jacob offer on the mountain? Gen. 31:54 ___________________________________
124. What did Laban do before he departed? Gen. 31:55 __________________________________
125. Who met Jacob on his way? Gen. 32:1 _____________________________________________
126. What did Jacob say when he saw them? Gen. 32:2 ___________________________________
127. What did Jacob call that place? Gen. 32:2 __________________________________________
128. To whom did Jacob send messengers? Gen. 32:3 ____________________________________
129. What message did Jacob send to Esau? Gen. 32:4-5 __________________________________
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130. When the messengers returned what did they tell Jacob? Gen. 32:6 _____________________
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131. How did Jacob feel about Esau coming? Gen. 32:7 ____________________________________
132. What actions did Jacob take? Gen. 32:7 ____________________________________________
133. Why did Jacob do that? Gen. 32:8 _________________________________________________
134. Who did Jacob call out to for help? Gen. 32:9 ________________________________________
135. How did Jacob feel about himself? Gen. 32:10 ________________________________________
136. What did Jacob have when he crossed over the Jordon? Gen. 32:10 ______________________
137. What had Jacob now? Gen. 32:10 __________________________________________________
138. What did Jacob pray? Gen. 32.11 __________________________________________________
139. Of what was Jacob afraid? Gen. 32:11 ______________________________________________
140. Of what did Jacob remind God? Gen. 32:12 __________________________________________
141. What did Jacob prepare as a present for Esau? Gen. 32:13-15 ___________________________
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142. Where did he tell his servants to take the droves? Gen. 32:16 ___________________________
143. What were the groups to tell Esau? Gen. 32:17-19 ____________________________________
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144. What did Jacob hope to accomplish by the presents? Gen. 32:20 ________________________
145. Where did Jacob lodge that night? Gen. 32:21 _______________________________________
146. What did Jacob send over the brook? Gen. 32:22-23 __________________________________
147. While Jacob was alone, what happened? Gen. 32:24 __________________________________
148. What happened to Jacob's hip? Gen. 32:25 __________________________________________
149. What did the Man ask Jacob to do? Gen. 32:26 _______________________________________
150 How did the Jacob respond? Gen. 32:26 _____________________________________________
151. What did the Man ask? Gen. 32:27 _________________________________________________
152. To what was Jacob's name changed? Gen. 32:28 ______________________________________
153. With whom was Jacob wrestling? Gen. 32:28 _________________________________________
154. What did Jacob ask the Man? Gen. 32:29 ____________________________________________
155. How did the Man respond? Gen. 32:29 ______________________________________________
156. What did Jacob call the place? Gen. 32:30 ___________________________________________
157. Why? Gen. 32:30 _______________________________________________________________
158. What did Jacob do then? Gen. 32:31 ________________________________________________
159. Why don't Israelites eat the muscle in the hip socket? Gen. 32:32 ________________________
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160.What did Jacob do to prepare to meet Esau? Gen. 33:1 ___________________________________
161. What order did Jacob arrange his family to meet his brother? Gen. 33:2 ______________________
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162. What did Jacob do when he finally met his brother? Gen. 33:3 ______________________________
163. What did Esau do when he met Jacob? Gen. 33:4 ________________________________________
164. How did Jacob respond to Esau's question about who the women and children were? Gen. 33:5
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165. How did the women and children greet Esau? Gen. 33:6-7 _________________________________
166. What did Jacob mean by the way he had arranged his family to meet Esau? Gen. 33:8 __________
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167. How did Esau respond to the presents Jacob gave him? Gen. 33:9 ___________________________
168. Did Jacob convince Esau to accept the presents? Gen. 33:10-11 _____________________________
169. To what did Jacob compare seeing Esau's face? Gen. 33:10 _________________________________
170. How had Jacob's attitude toward his brother changed? Gen. 33:11 __________________________
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171. What did Esau want to do? Gen. 33:12 _________________________________________________
172. How did Jacob respond? Gen. 33:13-14 _________________________________________________
173. What was the important thing to Jacob? Gen. 33:15 ______________________________________
174. After Esau left where did Jacob journey? Gen. 33:16-17 ___________________________________
175. Where did God tell Jacob to go? Gen. 35:1 ______________________________________________
176. What was Jacob to do at Bethel? Gen. 35:1 _____________________________________________
177. What did Jacob tell his household to do? Gen. 35:2 _______________________________________
178. What did God do for Jacob? Gen. 35:3 _________________________________________________
179. What did Jacob do with the foreign gods? Gen. 35:4 ______________________________________
180. Why didn't the cities they passed through pursue Jacob? Gen. 35:5 __________________________
181. Why did Jacob build an altar at Bethel? Gen. 35:6-7 _______________________________________
182. Who died and was buried at Bethel? Gen. 35:8 ___________________________________________
183. Who appeared to Jacob again? Gen. 35:9 _______________________________________________
184. What was Jacob's God given name? Gen. 35:10 __________________________________________
185. What did God tell Jacob to do? Gen. 35:11 ______________________________________________
186. What promises did God give Jacob? Gen. 35:11-12 ________________________________________
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187. Who had God given similar promises? Gen. 12:1-4, Gen. 26:2-5 _____________________________
188. What did Jacob do after God went up from him? Gen. 35:13-14 ____________________________
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189. What did Jacob call the place where God spoke to him? Gen. 35:15 _________________________
190. What happened near Ephrath? Gen. 35:16 _____________________________________________
191. What did the midwife tell Rachel? Gen. 35:17 __________________________________________
192. What happened to Rachel? Gen. 35:18 ________________________________________________
193. What did Rachel name the baby? Gen. 35:18 ___________________________________________
194. What did the father name the baby? Gen. 35:18 ________________________________________
195. Where was Rachel buried? Gen. 35:19 ________________________________________________
196. How did Jacob mark her grave? Gen. 35:20 ____________________________________________
197. What did Reuben do with Bilhah? Gen. 35:21-22 ________________________________________
198. Who was the mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun? Gen. 35:23 ________
199. Who was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin? Gen. 35:24? _______________________________
200. Who was the mother of Dan and Naphtali? Gen. 35:25? __________________________________
201. Who was the mother of Gad and Asher? Gen. 35:26 _____________________________________
202. Who buried Isaac? Gen. 35:27-29 ____________________________________________________
203. When Jacob's family went to Egypt, how many were Leah's descendants? Gen. 46:15 ___________
204. When Jacob's family went to Egypt, how many were Zilpah's descendants? Gen. 46:18 __________
205. When Jacob's family went to Egypt, how many were Rachel's descendants? Gen. 46:22 _________
206. When Jacob's family went to Egypt, how many were Bilhah's descendants? Gen. 46:25 _________
207. When Jacob's family went to Egypt, how many descendants did he have? Gen. 46:26-27 ________
208. Where was Leah buried? Gen. 49:30-31 _______________________________________________
209. Rachel and Leah were used as a blessing to whom? Ruth 4:10-11 __________________________
210. What does it say Rachel and Leah built? Ruth 4:11 ______________________________________
211. Where did Samuel say Saul would find two men? I Sam. 10:2 _____________________________
212. In Jeremiah 31:15, what does it say Rachel will do? ______________________________________
213. What was this prophecy referring to? Matt. 2:16-18 ______________________________________
214, What were Leah's strengths? _________________________________________________________
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215. What were Leah's weaknesses? _______________________________________________________
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216. What were Rachel's strengths? _______________________________________________________
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217. What were Rachel's weaknesses? _____________________________________________________
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218. All we really are told about Bilhah or Zilpah are that they were handmaids who were given by their
mistresses to their husband to bear children that would not be considered their own. In their
culture this was acceptable. How would you feel if you were Bilhah or Zilpah? ________________
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By Susie Cook
E-mail: Todd R. Cook