People Flashcards
Eve
Made from rib of Adam
Ate the fruit and blamed the snake
Children were Cain and Able
Cain
a tiller of the ground
Brought the fruit from the ground
Killed his brother out of jealousy
He will be a wanderer, ground will not produce harvest
abel
Herder of the flocks
Brought fatty portion of the firstlings of the flock
Killed by Cain
Abram (Abraham) and Sarai (Sarah)
Moved to canaan
COVENANT: God with make Abrams family as numerous as the stars
Abraham had a child with the servant (Hagar) ISHMAEL
Then God fulfills the promise and Sarah and Abraham have Isaac
THE TEST: Abraham is supposed to kill Issac as a test of loyalty
Isaac
Marries Rebekah, Has a son named Jacob and Esau
Noah
Has 3 kids, Shem, ham and Japheth
Builds the ark with 2 of each animal
600 years old when the flood came
After 7 months the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat
After 10 months noah released a raven, then Dove, then another Dove and it came back with a branch
Noah built an altar and worshiped god
The Covenant was that God will not curse the ground again and that noah will always worship God alone
Jacob
Means “heel”
Holding onto his brothers foot (younger)
Stole the birthright blessing from Esau
Goes to live with his uncle laban, Works for 7 years to marry Rachel but has to marry the younger one first, so works another 7 years to marry Rachel.
Has 12 children
Changes name to Israel
All the decedents are called the Israelites
Settles in the land of Canaan
Esau
Older than jacob
Was supposed to get the birthright blessing
Jacob apologizes and Esau accepts it
Joseph
Jacob and Rachel’s son (Jacob’s favorite)
Jacob gave a colorful garment
Has the ability to interpret dreams
He had dreams about him being better than his brothers, which made them mad.
Brothers got rid of Joseph by selling him to the ishmaelite’s
Family thought Joseph was dead
worked for Potiphar
Potiphar’s wife like Joseph, Potiphar got mad and threw him in jail
Joseph interpreted dreams of a cup bearer, and a royal baker
and Pharaoh
Egypt was going to have 7 years of crops and 7 years of bad crops
Benjamin
Youngest brother of Joseph
Moses
put down the nile river to be saved fro being killed
Pharaohs daughter adopted moses
Jethro
father of the 7 sisters
including zipporah who moses married
Zipporah
wife of moses
Aaron
“brother” of moses, went with him to speak about letting the Egyptians go
1st plague
Water to Blood- the water supply turned to blood and killed the fish
2nd plague
Frogs- frogs walked over the land, pharaoh wanted them gone so he gave the slaves more freedom.
3rd
Gnats- the dust turned to gnats
4th plague
Flies- flies upon everyone but the Israelites. the land was devastated
5th plague
Pestilence (disease)- God plagued the livestock of the Egyptian, they all died
6th plague
Boils-god threw soot everywhere, causing everyone to get boils but the Israelites
7th plague
Hail- hail will ruin all the crops, so strong that it could kill
8th plague
Locusts- God brought locust and they ate all the crops, pharaoh prayed to god to get them to go away.