Jacob and his father in law have been deceptive in dealing with each other and that leads to a disruption in their relationship, but God intervenes to bring them together.
Contention in marriage and the family continues for Jacob, who, contrary to God's will, has children by four different women, yet God continues to bless him.
God leads Jacob on his journey and he finds his wife, Rachel, but the Deceiver gets decieved himself, and Jacob ends up with a second wife.
Jacob runs from his brother Esau, who is angry with him for stealing his birthright, and Isaac and Rebekah sending Jacob to family to find a wife who believes in the true God.
With the help of Rebecah, his mother, Jacob steals his brother, Esau's, blessing from their father, Isaac, and despite the family disfunction, God keeps His Promise and works in His way to bring us the Messiah.
God renews His Promises to Abraham as He reminds Isaac, his son, of that Promise and guides him in his life.
Record of the descendents and death of Abraham, and how the family lives on through Isaac & his wife, Rebekah who gives birth to Esau & Jacob, who continue that line on to the Messiah.
Abraham sends his servant to get a wife for Isaac, making sure that she is not one who worships other gods than the true God.
Abraham's wife, Sarah, dies and for the first time Abraham buys land in the land that God had promised He would give to Abraham and his descendants.
God tests Abraham so that Abrahamwould trust God and do what God told him to do, to sacrifice his son, Isaac, and God honored that trust and spared Isaac.
God protects Abraham and Sarah from themselves and their foolish decision, and preserves the line of His Promise of a Messiah.
God judges and punishes the wickedness in Sodom and Gomorrah, but saves Lot and his family by warning them and sending them out before the destruction.
Abraham pleads for his nephew, Lot, and the righteous ones in Sodom and Gomorrah, and God listens and promises.
God gives Abraham the sign of circumcision to remind them of His Promises to send a Savior.
Despite the impatience of Sarai & Abram, God continues to bless them and assure them of His Promise.
A battle with Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot is taken captive, until Abram comes and conquers the enemy and sets Lot free.
Abram and his nephew, Lot, part ways so that each of their flocks could be fed and tension between the two and their herdsman might be aleviated. Abram let's Lot choose and God continues to bless Abram.
God's promise to Abram that through his family God would send a Savior for all people.
When mankind wanted to make a name for themselves and refused to fill the earth, they started to build a tower, but God intervened and spread them out and so fullfilled His promise to give them hope.
A genealogy in the time of Noah, which shows us the hope that God gives through the human family which is finaled realized in the birth of God's only Son, Jesus, into the human family to give us hope.