Voice of Good

Aaron

Aaron, Moses' brother, was not afraid to tell people what God said. Aaron was the first high priest of the Israelites, and he obeyed God's instructions. He told Pharaoh the ruler of Egypt, that God was punishing him so that he would let the Israelites go.

Moses

Moses was a Hebrew who was rescued as a baby and raised by an Egyptian princess. God chose Moses to rescue the Israelites, who were slaves to the Egyptians. But Moses was afraid that he couldn't do what God asked him to do. God promised He will be with him.

Moses' Basket Boat

The Egyptians built boats by tying together bundles of dried papyrus reeds. The papyrus reed basket that Moses' mother made probably looked like one of those boats.

The Nile The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world. The people of Egypt lived along the top, or northern, part of the river. Every year the river overflowed, leaving rich new soil where crops could grow. When other lands that depended on rainfall for their water supply had famines, there w...

How is Jacob's blessing of his sons special? (Genesis 49:1) Jacob's blessing is a prophecy as well as a prayer. It tells what will happen to each family and what will be special about each family many years later. The prophecy about Judah is most important. King David and Jesus came from this famil...

why did God send Jacob's family to Egypt?

(Genesis 46:27) God sent Jacob and his family to Egypt so that the family could grow in safety. There were many wars, as well as famines, in Canna. But in Egypt the 70 people in Jacob's family multiplied to become millions during the next 400 years.

Why Joseph pretend to be a stranger to his brothers?

(Genesis 42:8) Joseph wanted to find out whether his brothers realized that what they had done to him was wrong. Joseph kept on testing them, until at last they showed that they really cared for their father and each other.

Are dreams messages from God? -40:8 Most dreams are not messages from God, but God has spoken to people in dreams, God gave dream to the cupbearer, the baker, and the pharaoh in Genesis 40-41, and Joseph could explain what the dreams meant. When Joseph's interpretations turned out to be right, the ...

Why is Joseph important? -37:36 Joseph is important because this young son of Jacob saved his family from a famine and brought the Israelites to Egypt to live. Joseph was not treated fairly by his brothers or by others, but God helped him to become the second most powerful person in Egypt, which at...

What does Bethel mean? - Genesis 35:1 Bethel means "house of God." Jacob gave it that name because God spoke to him there. God revealed to Jacob wonderful things at Bethel. God changed Jacob's name to Israel and make the same promises to him that He had made earlier to Abraham. later Beth...

What is a mandrake?-Genesis 30:14

A mandrake is a plant with purple or white flowers. Its root is large and sometimes shaped like a human being. Many people in Bible times thought it had magical powers, which is probably why Leah and Rachel argued over the mandrakes Reuben brought home.

Rachel

Rachel was the beautiful younger daughter of Laban, Jacob's uncle. Jacob loved Rachel and promised to work Laban for seven years so he could marry her. Laban cheated Jacob, who ended up working 14 years for his uncle.

Why Isaac's blessing so important to Jacob and Esau? A father's blessing was like a powerful prayer. People believed the blessing guaranteed success and prosperity. So both Jacob and Esau wanted their father Isaac's blessing. According to the law at that time, spoken statements-including deathbed i...

Why Isaac's blessing so important to Jacob and Esau? -Genesis 27:4 A father's blessing was like a powerful prayer. People believed the blessing guaranteed success and prosperity. So both Jacob and Esau wanted their father Isaac's blessing. According to the law at that time, spoken statements-includ...

Jacob

Jacob was a quiet, clever man who cheated his twin brother, Esau, out of his inheritance. Jacob left his home and went to a country far away to escape his angry brother. God promised to watch over Jacob wherever he went.

Rebekah

Rebekah was a kind and beautiful girl. She agreed to leave her family to marry Isaac, who lived in a faraway country called Canaan. Isaac loved Rebekah, and she comforted him after his mother died.

Isaac

Isaac was Abraham and Sarah's son, and he trusted in God. Because God blessed him, Isaac became very wealthy. Isaac married Rebekah when he was 40 years old, and together they had twin sons, Esau and Jacob.

Where are Sodom and Gomorrah? The ruins of these two cities most like lie under shallow water at the south end of the Dead Sea.(Genesis 19:28) God probably destroyed the cities with a large explosion of gases and an earthquake. Today the nation of Israel has oil wells near where Sodom and Gomorrah ...

What does the name of Abraham mean?

Abram means "father", Abraham means "father of many". (Genesis 17:5)
Because Abraham believed God, this childless old man became the ancestor of millions of people.

What is a covenant?

In Bible times a covenant was like a legal contract or a treaty. It was the strongest possible promise a person or a country could make.
The promises God made to Abraham are His covenant with Abraham.(Genesis 15:18)

Hagar

Hagar was Sarah's slave. Because Sarah was childless, she gave her slave Hagar to Abraham to be his wife also. This was a common practice in Bible time. However, if the slave had a child, as Hagar did, the child belonged to the first wife, not the slave.

Sarah

Sarah was Abraham's wife. She was sad because she did not have any children. God promised Sarah a son, but she laughed because she was already old. God kept His promise, and Sarah's son, Isaac, was born.

Abraham Abraham obeyed God and left his relatives and country because God told him to go to a new land far away. God promised to give Abraham many children. Abraham believed God's promises, and God gave him and his wife a son when they were very old. This son later had his own children, and in this...

Noah

Noah was a good man who loved God even when no one else did. He trusted God and followed God's instructions to build an ark. God saved Noah and his family from a flood that destroyed the world.

Eve

God did not want Adam to be alone, so He created a helper for him. Her name was Eve, and God made her from one of Adam's ribs. Adam and Eve lived together in the Garden of Eden.

Adam

God created Adam, the first human being, in His own image. That means in many ways Adam was like God. God made Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed life into him. God place Adam in the Garden of Eden to take care of it.

Believe God's Promise God promised Abram that he would have a son and more descendants than Abram could count.(Genesis 15:1-6) Abram was 85 years old and had no children when God gave him this promise, but he believed God anyway and had faith that God would fulfill the promise. God then said that Ab...

The Tower of Babel The tower of Babel was probably a ziggurat, A ziggurat was a tall structure, like a pyramid, with stairs on the outside. These towers often had a temple on top, where people tried to reach heaven with prayers to false gods. God wanted the people to love and worship Him, not false...

Noah's Ark Noah built the wooden ark in which he, his family, and the animals escaped the waters of the flood. The ark was 450 feet long, as long as 1 and a half football fields put end to end. It was 45 feet high , as tall as a five-story building. It had windows-probably long, continuous windows-...

How long did it take to build the ark?

It probably took about 120 years. In order to save faithful Noah and his family, God waited until the ark was ready before he sent the flood.

Wrong Decisions Adam and Eve made a wrong decision, and they ate from a tree that God had told them not to. Do you ever wonder why they did it? Adam and Eve made the wrong decision because: 1, 3:4 Someone told them it was all right to do the wrong thing 2, 3:5 It looked like an exciting thing to do...

You are special! Read Genesis 1:26-27, God made you in His own image. You are not like the other creatures God made--humans are the only creatures that God created in His own image or likeness. That does not mean that you look like God or that you are equal to God, but it does mean that you are His...

What kind of of fruit did Edam and Eve eat? Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. The bible does not na...

What does create mean?

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The word create means " to make something new", God did just that when He created the universe. Genesis tells us that God created everything.