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6 to 8. The Flood.
11. Babel.
12. Abraham.
22. The Sacrifice of Isaac.
23. The Wrestling of Jacob.
37. Joseph.
49. The Blessings of Jacob.
XI. _Leading Characters._ See Device.
XII. _Leading Lessons:_
1. God's Intimate Acquaintanceship with Man.
2. The Wide Influence of One Person. (Let teacher and scholar illustrate these.)
XIII. _What of Christ:_
(a) Symbol: (The blood of Abel. Heb. 12:24.)
(b) Type: Adam. Rom. 5:14.
Melchizedek. Heb. 6:20.
(c) Analogy: Noah. Joseph.
(d) Prophecy: 3:15: "I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed
and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel."

12:3: "In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed." See Matt. 1:1.
49:10: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his
feet, until Shiloh come: and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be."
XIV. _Questions:_
1. Name the first two great institutions established by Jehovah.
2. Name the beginnings recorded in Chapters 3 and 4.
3. Name five facts mentioned about the Garden of Eden.
4. Name God's first recorded words, Satan's, Adam's.
5. Name the curses pronounced upon the serpent, upon the woman, upon the ground for
man's sake.
6. Name the first blacksmith, the first musician, the first piece of poetry, the first city, the
first and second tithers.
7. Give ages of Adam, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Joseph.
8. Name the cause of the flood and the number of people saved.
9. Name the three sons of Noah and the prophecies regarding the descendants of each.
10. Why did the people build the Tower of Babel?
11. Name the seven promises made to Abraham in Chapter 15.
12. By what quality was Abraham saved? 15:6. See Gal. 3:8.
13. Who was Melchizedek? Hagar? Ishmael?
14. Name the wife and sons of Isaac.
15. In what two ways did Jacob mistreat Esau?
16. How long did Jacob serve for his wives and cattle?
17. Fill out the following diagram of Jacob's wives, concubines and children. See 35:23.
+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | | | | | +---------+---------+---------+---------+ | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | +---------+---------+---------+---------+
18. Give origin, meaning and location of Mizpah.
19. Give the two chief reasons for the elevation of Joseph.

20. Name the dreams interpreted by Joseph.
21. Locate and give the substance of Judah's plea.
22. How many of the house of Jacob went down into Egypt?
NOTES ON THE QUESTIONS
These questions must needs be few in number. If the time permits, let the teacher add
others. They are designed to be mere surface questions, to secure acquaintanceship with a
few of the great facts. In assigning the questions on each book of the Bible let the teacher
go over them with the class, seeking their knowledge (or imparting it) as to the chapters
in which the answers may be found. If the class has the time and desires a more thorough
acquaintance with each book, let each member prepare two "large" questions on each
chapter, or upon as many chapters as they desire. The following questions on Chapter 1
will serve as examples: (1) Name the seven purposes of the lights. (2) State the number of
times the word God occurs.
XV. _Items of Special Interest:_
1. The symmetry of the paragraphs in the record of the six creative days in Chapter 1.
2. God's notice of the human countenance. 4:6.
3. The first piece of recorded poetry is degenerating, bloody. 4:23, 24.
4. The word for "rooms," 6:14, in the margin is "nests"--a primitive description.
5. The richness of the historical prophecy in 9:27.
XVI. _Individual Finds:_
Chapters
10, or 23, or 37, or all. Or each of these three chapters could be assigned to a third of the
class.

JOB
SECTION I. INTRODUCTION
From personal knowledge and reading, from perusal of articles in Bible helps and
dictionaries, write out in your own language a two-hundred-word description of the book
as a whole, its purpose, its nature, etc.
SECTION II. NARRATIVES

(To be memorized and told, with care in regard to all details.)
1. Description of Job and His Household. Chapter 1.
2. First Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 1.
3. First Test and Result. 1.
4. Second Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 2.
5. Second Test and Result. 2.
6. The Three Friends. 2.
SECTION III. GEOGRAPHY
Locate by chapter and verse, naming the thought, or fact, or person connected therewith,
the following geographical terms: Uz, Sabeans, Chaldeans, Temanite, Shuhite,
Naamathite, Buzite, Tema, Sheba, Ophir, Rahab, Ethiopia. (Locate chapter and verse by
reference to concordance.) (Make record in blank book on same page as map.)
Draw full-page map, locating each place as far as