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Arrow Class: Genesis 35:21-22 Israel kept moving on and stopped after Migdal Eder and lived there for a while! Today we are going to read Genesis 35:21-22 and make a tent from the coloring page, or build your own! Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Genesis 35:21-22 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Tent.pdf Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:20 Jacob set up a pillar marking Rachel’s tomb! So they would remember where she was buried! Today let’s read Genesis 35:20 and do an internet search for different stones or pillars that people do here and around the world! Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb. Genesis 35:20 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:19 Rachel, Israel’s wife, died. She was buried on the way to Bethlehem! Today let’s read Genesis 35:19 and ask your Tiny Arrow if they can remember some of the special things mentioned in the Bible about Bethlehem! So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). Genesis 35:19 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:18 Rachel was having her second son, and she was dying! Before she died she named her son Ben-Oni, which means son of my trouble, but Israel named him Benjamin, which means son of my right hand! Today let’s read Genesis 35:18 and tell your Tiny Arrow if either parent had a different name in mind for them, or if they both agreed right away! Then find out what the names mean! As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named him Ben-Oni. But his father name him Benjamin. Genesis 35:18 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:17 Rachel was giving birth, and was having trouble, but she gave birth to another son! Today let’s read Genesis 35:17 and ask your Tiny Arrows if they remember the name of Rachel’s other son; Joseph! And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t dispair, for you have another son.” Genesis 35:17 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:16 Jacob and his family left Bethel, and Rachel began to have her baby! Today let’s read Genesis 35:16 and talk about the day your Tiny Arrow was born, or someone they know! Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. Genesis 35:16 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:13-15 After God had talked with Israel, he set up a pillar and poured his drink and oil on it! Today let’s read Genesis 35:13-15 and place a few rocks on each other, then pour a drink and some oil on top of it! Just like Israel did! Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel. Genesis 35:13-15 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:12 God blessed Jacob, called him Israel and told him that he would be fruitful and the land would be his! The land was first given to Abraham, then Isaac and now Israel! Today let’s read Genesis 35:12 and color the coloring page! The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” Genesis 35:12 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Inherited-Land.pdf Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:11 Happy Monday Arrow Makers! God blessed Jacob, called him Israel and told him that he would be fruitful and a nation would come from him! Today let’s read Genesis 35:11 and ask your Tiny Arrow what nation would come from Israel? Israel! Then find it together on a map! And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. Genesis 35:11 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:9-10 God appeared to Jacob again and blessed him! He told Jacob that his new name was Israel! Today let’s read Genesis 35:9-10 and Genesis 32:24-28 and learn about the 2 times Jacob was named Israel! After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel. Genesis 35:9-10 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” Genesis 32:24-28 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:7 Jacob came to Bethel and built God an alter! Then he named it El Bethel or the God of Bethel! Today let’s read Genesis 35:7 and find a few rocks and stack them together and remind them that Jacob built an alter too! There he built an alter, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. Genesis 35:7 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:6 Jacob and his family left Shechem and traveled all the way to Bethel! Today let’s read Genesis 35:6 and draw a line from Shechem to Bethel on the coloring page! Jacob and all the people living with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. Genesis 35:6 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Shechem-to-Bethel.pdf Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:5 Jacob and his family were ready to go, and they all packed up and left! While they were leaving, the people around them did not harm or go after them them for what they did to the people of Shechem! God was still protecting Jacob! Today let’s read Genesis 35:5 and have your Tiny Arrow walk in front of you while you cower as they go by! Then explain that the people were afraid and let Jacob leave without harming them! Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them. Genesis 35:5 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:4 Everyone in Jacob’s house gave him their gods and earrings. They were getting ready to go! Then Jacob took everything and buried them under an oak tree! Today let’s read Genesis 35:4 and grab a shovel and something small your Tiny Arrow can bury! Then help them bury it outside somewhere! Then tell them they got to bury something just like Jacob did! So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. Genesis 35:4 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:3 Jacob told everyone with him they were to get ready and go to Bethel! He wanted to build an alter to God there! He knew that God had been with him and had helped him! Today let’s read Genesis 35:3 and ask your Tiny Arrow if they can remember some of the things God helped Jacob with, or some of the things God has helped your family with! “Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an alter to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” Genesis 35:3 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:2 Jacob was getting ready to go to Bethel like God asked. But first he wanted everyone to get rid of their idols, wash up and change their clothes! Today let’s read Genesis 35:2 and grab some things your Tiny Arrow can throw away that will represent idols. Then place them in a room and tell them to throw away the idols, wash their hands and change their shirt! Just like Jacob asked his house to do before they could go! So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.” Genesis 35:2 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35:1 After everything that had happened at Shechem, God told Jacob to go to Bethel! The same place Jacob had a dream about God and made an alter and vow to him! Today let’s read Genesis 35:1 and Genesis 28:18-22 and ask your Tiny Arrow if God did what Jacob asked him to do! Was God with him? Yes! Did he get food and clothes? Yes! Did he return safely to Canaan? Yes! Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an alter there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” Genesis 35:1 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.” Genesis 28:18-22 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 35 We finished Genesis 34, and now we are starting Genesis 35! In preparation for the lessons to come, let’s read all of Genesis 35 to your Tiny Arrows! Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34 Recap Today let’s reread Genesis 34, and remember what we learned and some of your Tiny Arrows favorite activities! Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34:30-31 Jacob was not happy about what his sons had done. He did not want the people in Canaan to be mad at him! He knew if they had to fight, it would be a lot of people vs a few people! Today let’s read Genesis 30-31 and ask your Tiny Arrow if they can think of a story in the Bible where a lot of people fought only a few people and the few people won! Like Gideon and his 300 men against the large Midianite army in Judges 7! Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.” But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?” Genesis 34:30-31 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34:29 Dinah’s brothers took everything the people in Shechem owned! Then they took their money and families! Oh my! Today let’s read Genesis 34:29 and give your Tiny Arrow a bag, and tell them to fill the bag with as much stuff from your house in 30 seconds and see how much they can get! They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses. Genesis 34:29 Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34:27-28 Simeon and Levi put all the men of Shechem to the sword and rescued Dinah. Then Dinah’s brothers took everything the people owned! They also took their flocks, herds and donkeys! Today let’s read Genesis 34:27-28 and cut out the sheep, cows and donkeys then hide them and have your Tiny Arrow find them! The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where their sister had been defiled. They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. Genesis 34:27-28 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Sheep-goats-cows-and-donkeys.pdf Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34:25-26 Happy Monday Arrow Makers! The men of Shechem agreed to be circumcised like Dinah’s brothers asked them too. Then, Simeon and Levi took their swords and killed every male in the city! Then they rescued Dinah and brought her home! Today let’s read Genesis 34:25-26 and rescue Dinah! Cut and color the Dinah page then either hide her for your Tiny Arrow to find, or put her somewhere that will be challenging for your Tiny Arrow to get her and have them get her! Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left. Genesis 34:25-26 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Dinah.pdf Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34:24 Shechem and his father talked to the men at the city gate and they agreed with them! They would circumcise all the men of the city! Today let’s read Genesis 34:24 and add a checkmark in the last bubble on yesterday’s coloring page! All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his sons Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised. Genesis 34:24 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Shechem-at-the-gate.pdf Arrowclass.com

Arrow Class: Genesis 34:23 Shechem and his father were still talking to the men at the gate of the city about Jacob! They would be like one family! Everything they had would be there’s too! They could share their animals and things! Today let’s read Genesis 34:23 and add an animal in the fifth bubble on yesterday’s coloring page! “Won’t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.” Genesis 34:23 Coloring page link: http://arrowclass.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Shechem-at-the-gate.pdf Arrowclass.com