Teaching Point: God s faithfulness to His covenant is revealed through the struggles of Isaac and Rebekah s twin boys.

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1 Lesson Highlights: Scripture References: Genesis 25:19-27:46 Teaching Point: God s faithfulness to His covenant is revealed through the struggles of Isaac and Rebekah s twin boys. Unit Memory Verse: Genesis 28:15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Alternate Verse: 2 Timothy 2:13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful for he cannot deny himself. Story Snap Shot In our previous stories, we saw Abraham give up everything to follow God. We saw Abraham and his son Isaac also trust God to provide a spouse! Both of them cling to God s promise. They want that blessing! Our story now shifts to Isaac s son Esau. Esau would give up the blessing for a bowl of stew. Jacob, the one who at least wanted the blessing, proved he would do anything to get it. The blessings from God that became more important than God. The result is a lot of lying, stealing, cheating, divided families, hatred, and marriages being split apart. Jacob will learn some hard lessons. Through it all? God remains steady faithful to His people. God is committed to His covenant even when we like sheep go astray. He is the best of all leaders. God continues to be faithful when we are faithless because He cannot deny Himself. 1 P a g e

2 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle Write kids names on board with total attendance! After the Rally Idea: use the icebreaker question to introduce this morning s topic and get the kids talking! Icebreaker Question: Open your Bibles!!! (Get the kids to open their bibles and read! We will do a quick recap then hit the lesson!) Recap: Last Sunday we read about Abraham and his son Isaac needing a wife. Isaac was not to marry a local girl but someone from their home country. Abraham trusted his servant to provide a wife and God did! Do you remember how it happened? God provided Rebecca for Isaac after waiting 40 years! Isaac is now going to be a father! Let s read about it! Read Genesis 25:21-22 Could Rebecca get pregnant? (No she too was barren.) Who else was barren from our previous stories? (Sarah.) Did you ever notice that God uses the most unlikely people to do some amazing things? When Rebecca did become pregnant, what was happening in her belly? (The babies were moving a lot!) Read Genesis 25: P a g e

3 What was happening in her belly? (The twins were fighting one another.) What did God declare? (The older will serve the younger.) What does this tell you about God? (God is in total control.) Read Genesis 25:25-28 Does anybody know any twins? Are they alike or totally different? How old was Isaac at the time of their birth? (Isaac was 60.) Is 60 old? What does Esau look like? (He has red hair and he is hairy. He loves to hunt.) What does Jacob look like? (He is quiet and loves to cook.) Which brother do you like better so far? Why? Is it ok for guys to like to cook? (Yes!) Did you notice that the parents had favorites? Do you think it is good when a parent favors a child over another? (No.) Read Genesis 25:29-34 What did Jacob want from Esau? (He wanted his birth right.) Why is a birth right important? (See commentary.) How did Esau feel about Jacob after? (He was angry.) 3 P a g e

4 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle Have the leader read Genesis 27:1-27 and See if you can get the kids to close their eyes so they can imagine what is happening in their heads! What did Jacob do? (He pretended to be Esau and stole his blessing!) Whose idea was it? (It was Rebecca s idea.) How did Jacob do it? (Rebecca fixed the food and Jacob dressed up like Esau.) What was the result of the blessing? (Esau would serve Jacob.) How did Esau respond? (He weeps bitterly!) Have the leader read Genesis 27:41-43 What does Esau want to do? (He wants to kill his brother.) Who warns Jacob? (Rebecca warns her son Jacob.) Where does Jacob flee? (He flees to Laban.) Take Home: Isaac and Rebekah finally have their children. It looks like the promise of a nation is coming! They have twins! However, we see favoritism and one twin wants to kill the other twin! How can a nation be created when two brothers hate each other? God will have His nation, but it will not depend upon man but upon God! 4 P a g e

5 Prayer Time Before you pray, allow the kids to share with you things that are happening in their lives. Be sure you write these down with their names for you to pray for as the week goes along. Ask them the things they mentioned the previous week. Older kids can be asked if they will pray for another who mentions something. As the leader, begin by opening in prayer and thanking God for this lesson: Praise God for being faithful when we are faithless. Ask God to give us hearts that to help us to trust Him when it looks like things aren t going as they should, to believe the Lord can control everything. Pray for any specific requests named either by praying yourself or by opening it up to those who said they would pray. Activities and Crazy Ideas: Activity 1: Olympic Weight Lifter Show a picture of an Olympic weight lifter lifting a weight. Ask them if it looks heavy. Ask them if it looks hard. Will they struggle with picking up something so heavy? God s leaders will struggle but with God s help they will do amazing things! Remind them of the story of Issac and Rebekah. Activity 2: Arms Out Have your students hold their arms out. After a while their arms will begin to get tired. Ask them if their muscles are beginning to shake and struggle. In the Bible, you will read about how God s leaders will struggle! Remind them of the story of Jacob and Esau s struggle! Activity 3: Foot Fumble -- Materials: One small craft stick for each child.children sit in a circle and remove one of their shoes and sock. Each one takes a turn trying to pick up the object using only his/her toes. As they struggle to pick it up remind them that 5 P a g e

6 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle God is faithful in our struggles. If each child used their hand or other foot to help pick up the object, the task would become so much easier. God is faithful in our big struggles. Activity 4: Arm wrestling ---Allow the kids to arm wrestle each other. One child will be the strongest and one will be the weakest. Remind the kids that God many times uses the weak and the most unlikely to achieve His purpose! Just like Jacob! Activity 5: Thumb wrestling Put the kids in pairs and teach them to thumb wrestle it really hard to win or lose at this game because it is hard to keep still and play fair.this is the story of Jacob and Esau.and all leaders we struggle with one another and God! Activity 6: Twins Video : Find a video on Youtube that has twins moving in the belly of a pregnant woman. Some kids will find it interesting and others will gross out. Remind them of the story of Jacob and Esau! Activity 7: Ankle Dragger Allow on kids to grab your ankle and see if you can drag them. As the kids laugh..remind them of the story where Jacob grabbed the ankle of Esau. Esau being bigger you would think would be the leader.but Jacob ended up being the leader! Activity 8: Best Impressions Divide the kids into two teams and line them up. One team will do an impression of Jacob and the other will do an impression of Esau. One from each team will get up in front and do their characters impression. The teacher will decide which impression was better. The one who does a better impression gets a point! See which team does better..the Esau team or the Jacob team! Activity 9: Taking Blessings Give each child a clothespin and put in on the back of their shirt where they can t reach it. When you say go, they will try to grab other s clothespins off their shirts while trying to protect their own. End the game at some point and have them notice that they were willing to dive, run and fall to keep others away from what was theirs. God wants us to be willing to do whatever it takes to stay with Him and to keep the blessings He s given us in Christ. In another part of the Bible, Paul wrote that we are supposed to strive, race, fight to stay with Christ, to be 6 P a g e

7 willing to sacrifice anything to be found in Him instead of being willing to give up for a bowl of stew. Materials: clothespins Notes and Commentary 25: God supernaturally provided a son for Isaac. Like Sarah, Rebekah was barren (v. 21) even though God promised that nations would stem from Abraham! In contrast with Abraham (16:1 4), Isaac prayed, and God responded. This shows that births were sometimes supernatural provisions. Later, Rachel, Jacob s wife, was also temporarily barren (29:31). But there was conflict in Rebekah s womb (25:22). When she went to inquire about this from the LORD, she received a prediction from Him: Two nations, that is, twin progenitors of two nations, were struggling in her womb and the younger would triumph (v. 23). Indeed the Israelites (Jacob s descendants) and the Edomites (Esau s descendants) fought continuously. God s election of Jacob the younger over Esau the older was against the natural order. 25: The parents observed the strange situation, and in view of God s oracle they commemorated the event by giving them appropriate names. The first of the twins was red and hairy, like a little animal, so they named him Esau. The mention of red anticipated the future rugged nature of Esau (vv ). The second twin was born grasping Esau s heel (v. 26). In view of the oracle the parents had received (v. 23) it seemed appropriate to give this child a name that would preserve the memory of this event. The name Jacob (ya ăqōḇ, meaning may He [God] protect ) was selected because of its connection in sound and sense to the noun heel ( āqēḇ). The verb āqaḇ means to watch from behind. But as with Esau, so Jacob s name would take on a different sense later in life as his deceptive nature became evident. His name also meant one who grabs the heel or one who trips up. So the twins births had great significance for later events in their lives. 7 P a g e

8 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle God s fulfillment of His promise to Abraham was carried out by His election of Jacob (later, the nation Israel). At the same time, on the human side, prayer was necessary (v. 21). God s promise is not carried out except through faith in His supernatural work. God later gave Israel, His elect nation, the promise. But it would not come without Israel s struggle. From the outset the birth of the nation of Israel was supernaturally superintended. Paul noted that before the twins births the younger was chosen over the elder (Rom. 9:11 12). God often reverses man s natural order, for His ways are not man s ways. b. The purchase of the birthright from Esau (25:27 34) Sadly, things of great spiritual value are often handled in profane or crafty ways. Some people treat spiritual and eternal things with contempt, for they see them as of no value. And others, though regarding such things highly, make the higher cause serve themselves through craft and manipulation. Esau and Jacob are examples of both types. 25: Jacob and Esau developed in accord with their initial characteristics. Esau, the red man, was overcome by his physical appetite for red stew (v. 30) and sold his birthright. And Jacob, the heel-grabber, cunningly overtook his brother and gained the birthright. Though Jacob was not righteous, he was not in this instance deceptive. He was open and obvious, but he was unscrupulous. He must be given credit for knowing what was of value and going after it. Esau, however, was totally godless ( profane, KJV; Heb. 12:16.) This passage too includes several important wordplays. Esau was a skillful hunter (lit., a man knowing game [ṣayiḏ], a man of the open country; Gen. 25:27), but he could not find game this time (v. 29). His father loved him because of his own taste for wild game (ṣayiḏ, v. 28). Thus Esau s nature and occupation were favored by Isaac because of the satisfaction of his palate. Both Isaac and Esau made choices because of this. Jacob was loved by Rebekah (v. 28), partly because of the oracle (v. 23) which she probably mentioned often. And he was a quiet man, staying among the tents (v. 27). But ironically Jacob was the craftier hunter, baiting his trap for the hungry animal. One day he was cooking (lit., boiling, wayyāzeḏ) some stew ( vegetable soup, nāzîḏ; v. 29) made of lentils (v. 34). These words reflect by sound the word for game (ṣayiḏ; vv ). But also the verb zîḏ ( to boil ) speaks of Jacob s presumption, for it means to be exalted or presumptuous. Thus the boiling soup portrays a man whelming up over his bounds. KJV King James Version 8 P a g e

9 As the firstborn, Esau had the birthright and Jacob had the stew. But in the exchange, Esau received the stew and Jacob the birthright. But Esau despised his birthright (v. 34), for what could it do for him if he died of starvation? (v. 32) Jacob, the second-born, then had the birthright. The calculating, quiet man who recognized the spiritual value in the birthright manipulated his profane brother into giving it up. Perhaps knowing the oracle (v. 23), Jacob had been waiting for this opportunity. However, God later made Jacob realize that His promises are not acquired in this way (cf. his grandfather Abraham s manipulating, 16:1 6). Certainly the profane nature of Esau was a warning for Israel. It is wrong to sacrifice spiritual provisions to satisfy one s physical appetites. This is a question of priorities. Esau saw only food; and he did whatever was necessary to get what he wanted (cf. Eve and the food on the tree, 3:6). Esau is portrayed as emotional: he was fainting and gasping (famished, 25:29), gulping (suggested by the Heb., v. 34), and then despising (v. 34). In this instance he was not a skillful hunter; he was more like an animal he had trapped with bait. To live on this base level, to satisfy one s appetites, inevitably leads to a despising of spiritual things. Jacob, though an indoorsman, was a better hunter than Esau. He too craved but something worth craving. Once he had grabbed by the heel; now he pressed the matter harder. But danger lies even in such spiritual ambition. Believers should seek things of spiritual value, but they should avoid the devices of the flesh. After Jacob was later purged of his human expedience, however, he became a capable servant, for his priorities were then correct. 1 27:1 2 Isaac is introduced as both old and blind. Both factors are important in light of subsequent events. Believing he was near to death, Isaac decides that the time has come to bless his firstborn son, Esau. Such blessings were very important, for as prayers addressed to God they were viewed as shaping the future of those blessed. Isaac s blindness enables Jacob to avoid detection when he pretends to be Esau. It may also be implied that Isaac s physical loss of sight reflects an inner 1 Ross, A. P. (1985). Genesis. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, pp ). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books. 9 P a g e

10 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle blindness that makes him oblivious to Esau s shortcoming and God s purpose for Jacob (25:23). Isaac s motivation for blessing Esau is possibly driven by a desire for delicious food (27:4) rather than a true assessment of his character. 27:4 that my soul may bless you before I die. The paternal blessing that Isaac wishes to give to Esau is important because it will establish the identity of the heir to the divine promises given to Abraham and Isaac. In light of this, the firstborn line will eventually lead to a royal descendant through whom all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This link between firstborn and blessing is emphasized in a wordplay involving both terms. In Hebrew, firstborn is bekorah, whereas blessing is berakah. Much of the story involving Esau and Jacob centers on these concepts and how the younger twin, Jacob, acquires both the firstborn birthright and the related paternal blessing. 27:5 10 Rebekah was listening. The narrator unambiguously states that Rebekah instigates and coordinates the deception undertaken by Jacob. This mitigates, but does not remove, Jacob s guilt in deceiving his father. 27:11 13 When Jacob expresses concern about being discovered, Rebekah states that she will bear any curse placed on him. Rebekah s desire for Jacob to receive the blessing of the firstborn is no doubt motivated by her special love for him (see 25:28). 27:11 From birth, Esau was clearly distinguished from Jacob by his hairy appearance (see 25:25). 27:19 27 I am Esau your firstborn (v. 19). This is an outright lie, and in violation of God s later command in Ex. 20:16. Isaac s reaction to Jacob s assertion suggests that he is not immediately convinced that this is Esau. The subsequent conversation adds to the drama of the story (Gen. 27:20 26). Isaac is eventually persuaded when he smells Esau s clothing (v. 27), which Jacob had earlier put on (v. 15). 2 27:30 36 When Esau returns to discover what has happened, he is filled with anger toward his brother (see v. 41). In response to Isaac s comment that Jacob deceived him, Esau observes, Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times (v. 36). Esau alludes here to the wordplay on the name Jacob, which means to deceive/cheat (see note on 25:26). From Esau s perspective, Jacob has cheated him out of both his birthright (see 25:29 34) and his blessing, although Esau willingly forfeited his birthright to Jacob (see 25:33). 27:35 God carries out his sovereign purpose of confirming Jacob as the chosen line of the offspring of Abraham (12:7; 25:23), in spite of Isaac s intent to bless Esau and in spite of the sinfulness in Jacob s deceit. 27:40 you shall break his yoke from your neck. Although Jacob has been given authority over his older twin brother, Isaac indicates that Esau will eventually free himself from his brother s control. 2 Crossway Bibles. (2008). The ESV Study Bible (pp ). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles. 10 P a g e

11 Later, Esau s descendants settle outside the Promised Land, to the east of the Jordan River (see note on 32:3 5), eventually taking control of Seir, which is later named Edom (see note on 36:1 37:1). 27:41 45 I will kill my brother Jacob (v. 41). When Rebekah learns of Esau s desire to murder his brother, she encourages Jacob to take refuge in northwestern Mesopotamia (Haran) with her brother Laban (vv ). Fratricide is a common theme in Genesis. 3 Lecture Notes We ve been talking a lot about Abraham and his family. We learned that Abraham was called by God to leave his home. God made promises to him as he went to make Abraham s family into a great what? (nation) And then He said He would bless them and protect them. But the last part of the promise was the best. God promised He would be Abraham s God, but not just his God but the God of his kids and their kids and their kids all the way to today. Then we saw that God was faithful to Abraham by giving him a son named Isaac. He would be the child God would keep and protect and bless. Last week we saw how God helped Isaac because we watched Him answer a servant s prayer. Abraham had sent his servant to go to the land of his relatives to do what? (find a wife for Isaac) What was the woman supposed to do when she came to the well? (give the servant a drink and offer to water the camels also) The Bible tells us God answered this prayer before the servant even finished praying it! He is so faithful and trustworthy. And because He is, the story of Abraham s family continues in the Bible. God shows us so much about who He is and often He shows us through faithful people like that servant. But sometimes we learn a lot about who God is and the kind of leader He is by looking at the hard times that the people of God had even when those hard times are their own fault. Today is one of those stories. When we left last week, one of the last things we read in the Bible was that Isaac loved Rebekah and took her to be his wife. Sounds great, right? Well, it was for a while. But problems started right away when they didn t have any children for 35 years! They prayed to God about it, and He finally answered by giving them twin boys. But God told 3 Crossway Bibles. (2008). The ESV Study Bible (pp ). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles. 11 P a g e

12 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle them there would be many problems between them. And boy, was that right! In fact, the next time we read about the boys, they are grown men named Esau and Jacob. Turn to Genesis 25: Describe what happened to the relationships in this family. Who started dividing up? (Isaac preferred Esau, Rebekah chose Jacob) Isaac had loved Rebekah. They were together for 35 years. And now there are problems between her and Isaac but even more problems between the boys. Sometimes it can seem like one of our parents seems to like our brother or sister more maybe it seems like they get to do more or they just laugh together more. But what if you found out that was for real? They really did choose one of your brothers and wanted them more than they did you? That would be terrible! What happened because of that? Let s keep reading in verse 29 all the way to the end of the chapter. It says that Esau sold his birthright what does that mean? Well, remember that God had given the promise to Abraham of land and family and blessing and wealth. God would do that through this family. That means the firstborn son would be really powerful and strong and be taken care of by God. God would make a nation for him. But Esau didn t even care about the blessings of God. He gave up the blessings of God for food! That s why the Bible says that he despised his birthright. That means he just tossed it away like it was trash not worth anything to him. So, now Jacob has it. What would happen next? Well, the next time we see them, Isaac is really old and is about to die. Read with me in Genesis 27:1-13. Even though Esau didn t even care about it and even though God had already said that Jacob would have the blessing, Isaac still wanted to give the blessing to Esau. So, Isaac asked Esau to go hunt and make him some food. Esau leaves, but doesn t know that Rebekah had overheard and decided to help her favorite son, Jacob, get the blessing. What did she tell Jacob to do? (get some meat so she can make Isaac s favorite dish) Because she wants the blessing to go to who? (Jacob) She wants Jacob to lie to his dad. Does Jacob say no? (no) Instead of saying no, Jacob just worries that he ll get caught because Isaac might decide to feel of him. Why was that a problem? (Esau had a lot of hair on his body, but Jacob didn t) Isaac would know that it was Jacob as soon as he touched him. But Rebekah and Jacob were determined to lie. Read with me in Genesis 27: It was a terrible thing they were doing. Rebekah knew that when Isaac felt of Jacob, he d think it was Esau. And you know what? It worked. Jacob lied and said he was Esau and so Isaac blessed him and gave him the right to have the blessings of God. Now Jacob would be the one God protected, loved and cared for. God had known that this would happen, remember? He s the one who told Rebekah. And that s probably why she did all of this. But does that make it right? Is stealing and lying and cheating ever okay? 12 P a g e

13 (no) We may know the way things are supposed to be but how we get them matters. If a toy is yours, but you rip it away from your brother instead of asking nicely it matters. You can sin by doing something, but you can also sin by HOW you do something. That s where Jacob was. Instead of trusting God and waiting on Him and believing that His words would come true, Jacob and Rebekah failed as God s leaders. They used lying and cheating and stealing things God hates to try to gain the favor of God for Jacob. And it had really bad consequences. Right after this, Esau came back in and rushed over to Isaac to get the blessing only to find out that Jacob had beaten him to it. And just as you d expect, Esau is very, very angry so angry that he says that he s going to kill Jacob as soon as their father is dead. Rebekah hears it and she runs to tell Jacob and guess what? Jacob has to leave his home. Rebekah lied and cheated for Jacob, her favorite son, and because she did, she lost him. Rebekah never saw her son again. She died before he could return. She was left alone with the husband she had lied to and the son she had helped to hurt. Things didn t go well for Jacob either. He not only had to leave home, but had to go to work far away for years and years and years. And while he was there, he was lied to and cheated from. God didn t let him get away with anything. Jacob and Rebekah were both punished. As his mom she should have led him in the ways of God. Now she can t lead him at all. As a grown man, Jacob should have stood for God, should have led His mom to trust God more. But he didn t. You know the really amazing thing though? God. God had made a promise to Abraham and Isaac and not even Jacob s sin would stop him from keeping it. So, even though Jacob didn t trust God like he should even though he lied and cheated even though he chose not to stand as a leader for God, God stood as his leader. He will work and work in Jacob s heart until he is the man of God he is supposed to be. The Bible tells us in 2 Timothy 2:13 that when we, His people, are faithless, when we don t trust Him, He never turns from us He stays faithful. Why? Why should God stick with us when we don t stick with Him? Because of Jesus. Because Jesus stuck with God. He trusted Him. He stayed with Him. He believed in Him. And He waited on God to do whatever God wanted Him to do. Jacob didn t. Neither do I. Neither have you. We ve all sinned against God. And yet, God still stays with His people because He accepts the perfect sacrifice of Christ for our sins, for our failure to believe in Him, to trust Him. It s just one more way the cross of Jesus leads us to praise for God. He s such a good leader. We re going to find out more next week about what 13 P a g e

14 Planet 1, OT Lesson 10: God s Leaders Struggle happened to Jacob and talk about some boys he had, but for now, let s pray and ask God to help us this time not to be like what we ve seen today. Suggested Follow-up Activities Teachers are free to choose the activities that they feel are best for their group. The idea is that as the children work and play, remind them of the truths they just learned. Scripture Memory: Figure out your reward system for memorizing the Scriptures provided in this section. Give the children several opportunities to tell it to you in class. Play a memory game with the kids if you have time. Craft: 2 Bowls Remind the kids that we talked about having in faith in God not only in what we do but in how we do it. Rebekah and her son Jacob brought great trouble to their family when they schemed to take the birthright from God away from Esau by lying to Isaac. It is what God told Rebekah would happen, but she and Jacob didn t trust God to see it done. Have the kids make a bowl like the one Jacob served stew to Esau in as a reminder of both stories. Point out that what came in a bowl was worth more to Esau that the blessing of God. And that later, Jacob was willing to use a bowl to deceive his father because he wanted the blessing of his father and of God so much that he was willing to lie and steal to get it. In both cases, they didn t stand as God s leaders because they wanted something more than God for themselves. Give them each a ball of clay and a heavy-duty paper bowl. Have them shape it into a bowl and let it air dry. If there is time, give them a toothpick to allow them to draw designs on their clay bowl before taking it home. Materials: air dry clay; heavy-duty paper bowls Craft: Who s Who Remind the kids that we talked about having in faith in God not only in what we do but in how we do it. Rebekah and her son Jacob brought great trouble to their family when they schemed to take the birthright from God away from Esau by lying to Isaac. It is what God told Rebekah would happen, but she and Jacob didn t trust God to see it done. Give each child a copy of the craft page and the cutouts provided. Have the color them as they d like and then glue the elements and names near the man they think they should go with. On the one they call Esau, have them glue some shredded yarn on his arms and legs. 14 P a g e

15 Materials: copies of the craft page and templates; scissors; markers and crayons; stick glue; shredded, dark-colored yarn Craft: Jacob Steals from Esau Remind the kids that we talked about having in faith in God not only in what we do but in how we do it. Rebekah and her son Jacob brought great trouble to their family when they schemed to take the birthright from God away from Esau by lying to Isaac. It is what God told Rebekah would happen, but she and Jacob didn t trust God to see it done. Give each child a copy of the craft page. Have them color all of the elements as they d like. They can then cut out the verse and glue it where indicated. They ll also need clear tape to glue the door in place on one side to reveal the scene of Abraham giving the blessing to Jacob. If desired, have them glue shredded yarn over Jacob s arms and shoulders to show the way he tricked Abraham. Materials: copies of the craft pages; markers and crayons; scissors; stick glue; clear tape; optional: shredded, dark-colored yarn Notes: 15 P a g e