The History of the Bible, Genesis
GENESIS.
Queſtion.
VVHat is Religion?
Anſwer.
A knitting of vsus againe to God.
Q. How felt we from God?
A. By the ſinnes of Adam and Euah.
Q. How are we reconc… vntounto God?
A. By the righteouſnes of Ieſus Chriſt, which is the new and ſecond Adam.
Q. Where find you this?
A. In the Bible.
Q. How is the Bible diuided?
A. Into the old Teſtament and the new.
Q. How is the old Teſtament diuided?
A. Into the Lawe and theProphets.
Q. Who writ the law?
A. Moſes.
Q. In how many bookes?
A. In fiue.
Q. What cal you the firſt book?
A. Geneſis.
Q. Why is it ſo called?
A. Becauſe it containeth the firſt generation of all creatures.
Q. How is Geneſis diuided?
A. Into three parts: the creation of the world: the decay of the world: and the repaire of it againe.
chapter 1 The creation of the world.Q. Who made the world?
A. God.
Q. Whereof?
A. Of nothing.
Q. Wherewith?
A. With his word.
Q. In how many daies?
A. In ſixe.
Q. VVhat did God make thefirſt day?
A. Heauen, earth, and light.
Q. What did he make the ſecond day?
A. The firmament, and ſeparated the waters.
Q. What did he the third day?
A. He gathered the waters into one place: he made drie land to appeare; he made herbs and trees.
Q. What did God make the fourth day?
A. Sunne, Moone, and ſtarres.
Q. What made he the fift day?
A. Birds and fiſhes.
Q. VVhat made he the ſixt day?
A. Creeping things, beaſts, and Man.
chapter 2 Q. What did God the ſeauenth day?
A. He reſted and ſanctified it to be a Sabbath.
Q. What is a Sabbath?
A. A reſt.
Q. What must we do on the Sabbath day?
A. Holy things.
Q. What are thoſe holy things?
A. Hearing and learning the word of God preached, praying, receiuing the Sacraments, and meditating vponupon Gods creatures.
Q. Wherof was Adam made?
A. Of the duſt of the earth.
Q. Wherof was Euah made?
A. Of the ribbe of Adam.
Q. Where were they ſet to dwell?
A. In the garden of Eden.
Q. What were they forbidden to do?
A. That they ſhould not eate of the fruite of the tree ofknowledge of good and euil.
Q. Did they obey God or not?
A. No: they did eate of the fruite of the tree of knowledge of good and euill.
chapter 3 The decay of the world.Q. What did God with them for breaking his commandement?
A. He curſed them.
Q. Whom did God curſe?
A. Adam, Euah, and the ſerpent.
Q. Why did God curſe the ſerpent, ſeeing the ſerpent did not eate of it?
A. Becauſe he prouoked thē.
Q. Did all the world remaine vnderunder this curſe or no?
A. No: God promiſed that the ſeede of the woman ſhould breake the head of the ſerpent.
Q. Who was that ſeed of the woman?
A. Ieſus Chriſt.
Q. What is the efficient cauſeof mans ſaluation?
A. The louelove of God.
Q. What is the materiall cauſe?
A. The death and paſſion of Ieſus Chriſt.
Q. What is the inſtrumentall cauſe?
A. Faith.
Q. What is the finall cauſe?
A. To glorifie God.
Q. How in this world?
A. By ſeruing him.
Q. How in the world to come?
A. By beeing glorified with him.
Q. After that Adam & Euah were accurſed, where were they ſet to dwell?
A. Abroad in the world.
Q. What children had they?
A. Cain and Abel.
Q. How were they brought vp?
A. In the feare of God.
Q. Did they both ſerue God?
A. Yes.
Q. Did they both ſerue God rightly?
A. No: Cain ſerued God in hypocriſie.
Q. What hinderance was there then to religion?
A. The deuill prouoked Cain to kill his brother Abel.
Q. Did Cain kill Abel?
A. Yes.
Q. What did God with Cain for killing his brother?
A. He curſed him.
Q. Did God with this curſe take away all graces from Cain and his posteritie, as well as the graces of adoption?
A. No: Cain was the firſt builder of cities. Iubal the firſt player of inſtruments. Tubal the firſt inuenter of ſmiths craft. And Iabal the firſt dweller in tents.
Q. Cain beeing curſed, and Abel killed, whom did God raiſe vp to ſerue him?
chapter 5 A. Sheth.
Q. Rehearſe the Fathers before the flood?
A. Adam, Sheth, Enoſh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered, Henoch, Methuſhelah, Lamech, and Noah.
Q. Who was the oldeſt man that euer liued?
A. Methuſnelah.
Q. How long liued he?
A. Nine hundred ſixtie and nine yeares.
Q. What became of Henoch?
A. He was taken vp both bodie and ſoule to walke with God.
Q. How many were ſo taken vp beſide him?
A. Two: Eliah, and Ieſus Chriſt.
Q. In what time were theſe taken vp?
A. Henoch, before the law: Eliah, in the law: and Ieſus Chriſt in the Goſpell.
Q. Why were they thus takē vp?
A. That they might be three figures of our reſurrection, that we ſhall riſe againe both body and ſoule to walke with God.
chapter 6 Q. Did religion continue in the poſteritie of Sheth?
A. N… …
Q. In whoſe daies decayed it?
A. In the daies of Enoch.
Q. What ſigne or ſhew was there of the decay of religion?
A. When the ſonnes of God ſaw that the daughters of men were faire, they tooke thē wiues of whom ſoeuer they liked.
Q. Who were the ſons of God?
A. The poſterity of Sheth.
Q. Who were theſe daughtersof men?
A. The poſterity of Cain.
Q. What fruit came of theſe marriages?
A. Gyants, monſtrous men in conditions.
Q. What did God with the world beeing thus repleniſhed?
A. He drowned it.
Q. Was all the world drowned?
A. No.
Q. Who were ſaued?
A. Noan, …, his ſons, and their wiues.
Q. Wherein were they preſerued?
A. In the Arke.
Q. Did the Arke preſerue thē?
A. No, God did ſhut it.
Q. How long rained it?
A. Fourtie daies and fourty nights.
Q. How long did the waters preuaile vponupon the face of the earth?
A. One hundred and fiftie daies.
chapter 8 Q. When the waters were decreaſed, what meſſengers did Noah ſend foorth?
A. A Rauen and a Doue.
Q. Whether brought the better newes?
A. The Doue brought an Oliue leafe in her mouth.
Q. When the waters were gone, did Noah come forth of the Arke?
A. No: he tarried ſeauen daies: for he ſaid, as he went in at Gods commandement, ſo he would come forth.
Q. When God commaunded him to come forth, what was the firſt thing he did?
A. He offered ſacrifice vntounto God.
Q. Did God accept his ſacrifice?
A. Yes.
Q. How know you?
A. Becauſe he promiſed that he would neuer drown the world againe.
chapter 7 The repaire of the world.Q. What aſſurance gaue God of this promiſe?
A. He ſealed it vp with the figne of the Rainebow.
Q. What did Noah after this?
A. He planted a vineyard and was drunke.
Q. What did his ſonnes vntounto him in his drunkenneſſe?
A. Ham made a mocke at his fathers nakednes: Shem and Iapheth took a garment & couered their fathers nakednes.
Q. What ſaid Noah when hee awoke and knew what his ſons had done vntounto him?
A. He ſaid, Curſed be Ham, and bleſſed be Shem and Iapheth.
Q. What nations came of theſe three ſonnes of Noah?
A. Of Shem, came the Iſraelites. Of Ham, came the Cananites. Of Iapheth came the Centiles.
chapter 11 Q. Did the poſteritie of the world take any warning by the flood or not?
A. No: they built them a citie and a tower that ſhould reach vp to heauen.
Q. Who was the chiefe in this building?
A. Nimrod, a mightie hunter and ſpoiler of men.
Q. What did they ſeeke in their building?
A. A name, and that they might not be ſcattered vponupon the face of the earth.
Q. Did God like of their building?
A. No: he ſcattered them vponupon the face of the earth, and confounded their language.
Q. What name got they?
A. Babel, which is confuſiō.
Q. They being thus ſcattered, what became of them?
A. The tenth chapter ſheweth the places and countries where they dwelt, ſome cities which they built, and the people which came of them.
Q. Rehearſe the fathers after the flood?
A. Shem, Arpachſhad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Abraham.
chapter 12 Q. After the confuſion of languages, whom did God raiſe vp to ſerue him.
A. Abraham.
Q. Whence had he him?
A. Out of the land of Vr.
Q. Whither had he him?
A. Into the land of Canaan.
Q. Rehearſe Abrahams iourneyes?
A. Haran, Haai, Egypt, Bethel:the vale of Mamre. Gerar, Moriah, and Hebron.
Q. What was the firſt thing that Abraham did when he came to any place?
A. He ſought a place to ſerue God in.
Q. What befel to him at Harā?
A. He loytered by the way, and his father Terah died.
Q. What befell to Abraham at Haai?
A. There was a famine.
Q. Whither went he to dwell thē?
A. Into the land of Egypt.
Q. What befell to him there?
A. His wife was taken away by proud king Pharaoh.
Q. Did Pharaoh commit wickedneſſe with her?
A. No: the Lord would not ſuffer him.
Q. Had Abraham his wife againe?
A. Yes.
Q. Whither went he then?
A. To Bethel.
Q. What befell there?
A. There was a quarrel betweene Abrahams ſeruants & Lots.
Q. How was the quarrell ended?
A. Abraham ſaid to Lot, If thou wilt go on the left hand, I will go on the right: or, if thou wilt go on the right hand, I will go on the left.
Q. Whither went Lot then?
A. To Sodome.
Q. What manner of place was Sodome?
A. A pleaſant place, but the people were wicked.
Q. Whither went Abraham then?
chapter 14 A. To the plaine of Mamre.
Q. What befell to Lot fordwelling in ſuch a wicked place among ſo wicked people?
A. He was taken priſoner by foure kings.
Q. Did he continue priſoner?
A. No: the Lord deliuered him by the hand of Abraham.
Q. When Abraham came frō the battell, who met him?
A. Melchizedeck king of Salem, and the king of Sodom.
Q. Why came Melchizedeck?
A. To bring bread & wine for Abrahams armie.
Q. Why came the king of Sodome?
chapter 15 A. For his men againe.
Q. Abraham hauing ouercome the foure kings, and fearing leaſt the whole countrie would riſe vp againſt him, how did God comfort him?
A. He promiſed him a ſonne.
Q. How would Sarah Abrahamswife hauehave this promiſe performed?
chapter 16 A. By a handmaid, named Hagar.
Q. Had Araham a ſonne by her?
A. Yes.
Q. What was his name?
A. Iſhmael.
Q. Did God like this deuiſe of Sarah, that ſhee would hauehave his promiſe performed by ſinne?
A. No: ſhee was the firſt that ſinarted for it: for ſhee was deſpiſed of her maid Hagar.
Q. Theſe troubles beeing in Abrahams houſe, how was his faith ſtreng thened?
chapter 17 A. God promiſed him a ſonne by his wife Sarah.
Q. What aſſurance gaue he of this promiſe?
A. He ſealed it vp with the Sacrament of circumciſion.
Q. Did the Sodomites continue in their wickedneſſe?
chapter 18 A. Yes: they waxed worſe and worſe.
Q. What did the Lord then?
A. He came downe to ſee their wickedneſſe, and reuealed vntounto Abraham the deſtruction thereof.
Q. What did Abraham?
A. He prayed for them.
Q. What ſaid the Lord?
A. He ſaid he would ſpare thē, if there were only ten righteous perſons found in Sodom.
Q. What did the Lord when he could not finde tenne righteous perſons in that ſinfull citie?
chapter 19 A. He ſent downe fire and brimſtone from heauen and conſumed them.
Q. Were all the inhabitants of Sodome defiroyed.
A. No: Lot, his wife, andhis two daughters were preſerued.
Q. What became of his ſonnes in law?
They were deſtroyed with the reſt of the city, be cauſe they made a mocke at their fathers warning.
Q. What became of Lots wife?
A. Shee looked backe, and was turned into a pillar of ſalt.
Q. Whather wont Lot to dwell then?
A. To a litle citie called Zoar.
Q. Whither went he thence?
A. Into the mountaines.
Q. What befell to him there?
A. His two daughters made him drunke, and lay with him.
Q. What fruite came of that inceſtuous act?
A. There were two childrē borne, Moab, and Ben-ammi, the fathers of two curſed nations,the Moabites, & the Ammonites.
Q. In the euening before Sodome was deſtroyed, how did it appeare vntounto Abraham?
A. Like a paradiſe of God.
Q. How did it appeare in the next morning?
A. Like the ſmoke of a furnace, verſ. 28.
chapter 20 Q. Whither went Abraham to dwell then?
A. To the land of Gerar.
Q. What befell to him there?
A. His wile was taken away by king Abimclech.
Q. Did he commit wickednes with her?
A. No, the Lord would not ſuffer him.
Q. Had Abraham his wife againe?
A. Yes.
Q. Had he a ſonne accordingto promiſe?
A. Yes.
Q. How called he his name?
A. Iſaac.
Q. VVho nurced him?
A. His mother Sarah.
Q. What did Abraham when he was weaned?
A. He made a feaſt.
Q. What befell at the feaſt?
A. Iſhmael mocked Iſaac.
Q. What befell to Iſhmael for mocking Iſaac?
A. He and his mother were baniſhed.
chapter 22 Q. How did God prooue Abrahams faith?
A. He bad him offer his ſonne Iſaac in ſacrifice.
Q. Did he offer him?
A. Yes.
Q. Did he kill him?
A. No: the Angell of the Lord appeared vntounto him and ſaid, Abraham, Abraham, ſtay thy hand.
Q. What did Abraham then offer in ſtead of his ſonne?
A. A Ram, which was tyed by the hornes in a buſh.
Q. Where was it that Abraham did offer his ſonne?
A. At Moriah.
Q. What poſſeſſion did Abraham buy in the land of Canaan?
A. He bought a field to burie his dead in.
Q. Whom did he burie there?
A. His wife Sarah.
Q. How long liued ſhe?
A. One hundred twenty & ſeuen yeares.
Q. How was Iſaac brought vp?
A. In the feare of God.
Q. How was he married forth?
A. To a woman named Rebecca.
chapter 25 Q. Had Abrahā another wife?
A. Yea, Keturah.
Q. How many children had he by her?
A. Sixe ſonnes.
Q. Rehearſe their names.
A. Zimran, Iockſhan, Medan, Midian, Iſhback, and Shuah.
Q. Had theſe any inheritance with Iſaac?
A. No: he gaue all his goods to Iſaac, and gaue gifts to his other ſonnes, & ſent them away into the Eaſt frō his ſon Iſaac.
Q. How long liued Abraham?
A. One hundred ſcuentie and fiue yeares.
Q. Where was Abraham buried?
A. His two Sonnes Iſaac & Iſmael buried him in the caue of Machpelah by his wife Sarah
Q. Had Iſaac any children by Rebecca?
A. Yes: 2. ſons, Eſau & Iacob.
Q. Whether of them was the elder?
A. Eſau.
Q. How loſt he his birthright?
A. He ſold it to Iacob for a meſſe of pottage.
Q. What befell in the daies of Iſaac?
chapter 26 A. There was a famine.
Q. Whether went he then?
A. Into the land of Gerar.
Q. What befell to him there?
A. The Lord appeared vuto him, and promiſed to giuegive the land of Canaan to his ſeede.
Q. What befell there more?
A. He denied his wife: the Lord made him to proſper, in ſo much that the inhabitants of the countrie ennied him and ſlopped his wels.
Q. Whether went he then?
A. To Beer-ſheba.
Q. What befell there?
A. The Lord appeared vntoto him and comfort him.
Q. What was the firſt thing he did there?
A. He offered facrifice vntounto God.
Q. Whilſt he was there who came vntounto him?
A. Abimelech, Abuzzath, & Pichol the chiefe captaine of his armie.
Q. Wherefore came they?
A. To make a league with them.
Q. How did Eſau looſe the bleſſing?
chapter 27 A. Iacob came firſt, and brought kids dreſſed like veniſon, and ſaid that he was his firſt borne, and ſo got the bleſſing.
Q. What ſaid Eſau when Iacob had goiten both birth-right and bloſſing from him?
A. He ſaid, The daies ofmourning for my father will come ſhortly, then wil I ſlay my brother Iacob.
Q. To preuent this, whither did Iſaac & Rebecca ſend Iacob?
chapter 28 A. To Padan Aram to marrie a wife.
Q. What company had he?
A. His ſtaffe in his hand.
Q. What lodging had he that night?
A. Hee laid him downe on the ground, and a ſtone vnderunder his head.
Q. What appeared to him there?
A. A ladder ſtanding at his head, the top whereof reached vp to heauen, the Angels of God went vp and downe by it, and God aboue it.
Q. Who was that ladder?
A. Ieſus Chriſt, who is the way, the truth, and the life, Ioh. 4
Q. What did he learne thereby?
A. That the angels of the Lord were continually ready to bring downe comfort and ſuccour to the faithfull: but to the wicked, plagues and puniſhments.
Q. What did he in the morning?
A. He tooke the ſtone and ſet it vp as a pillar, & powred oyle on it, and ſaid: if God will bee with me, and keepe me in this lourney, which I goe, and giuegive me bread to eate, & cloathes to put on; ſo that I may returne to my fathers houſe in ſafety, then ſhall the Lord bee my God, and this ſtone ſhal be his houſe, and I will come and ſerue him heere.
Q. Did the Lord prosper his iourney?
chapters 25,30 A. Yes: for he had wiues, children, and ſubſtance.
Q. How many wiues had hee?
A. Two: Leah and Rahel.
Q. How many children had he in Padan Aram?
A. Eleuen ſonnes and one daughter.
Q. Rehearſe their names?
A. Reuben, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Iſſachar, Zebulon, Dan, Gad, Aſher, Nepthali, Ioſeph, and Dinah, his daughter.
Q VVhat ſubſtance had hee?
A. Hee had men ſeruants, maid ſeruants, flocks oſſheepe, heards of cattel, & great riches.
Q. How long ſerued he in Padan Aram?
chapter 30 A. Twentie yeares: viz. ſeauen yeres for Leah; ſeuen yeres for Rahel; & ſixe for his riches.
Q. VVhy did hee not remaine with Laban?
A. Becauſe the Lord commanded him to returne into his countrey.
Q. When he returned, with whom had he controuerſie?
A. With Laban, with God, and with his brother Eſau.
Q. How was the controuerſie ended with Laban?
A. God charged Laban in a dreame that he ſhouldſpeake nothing but good to Iacob.
Q. How was the controuerſie endedwith God?
A. He wreſtled with God, who gaue him a pinch in the thigh, that he halted euer after; but he left not wreſtling vntill he obtained the bleſſing.
Q. How was the controuerſie ended with Eſau?
A. With faire words.
Q. Whither went Iacob then?
chapters 33,34 A. VntoUnto Sechem: and there he bought a parcell of ground of Hamor Shechems father, for an hundred pieces of ſiluer.
Q. Why went he not to Bethel according to the vow and promiſe he had made?
A. He was ſo rich he had forgotten his promiſe made when he was poore.
Q. How did God puniſh him?
A. His daughter Dinah was rauiſhed: Simeon and Leui became murtherers, and he ſtanke before all the countrey.
Q. Whither went he then?
chapter 35 A. To Bethel.
Q. What charge gaue he vntounto his houſhold?
A. He charged them to put away their ſtraunge gods, to clenſe their hearts, and change their garments.
Q. What did the Lord for the confirmation and ſtrengthning of his faith?
A. He changed his namefrom Iacob to Iſrael. ch. 32.28.
Q. What befell as hee parted from Bethel?
A. Rahel died in childbirth.
Q. What called ſhee the childs name?
A. Ben-oni: the ſonne of mine affliction.
Q. What did his fathers call him?
A. Beniamin.
Q. Whether went he then?
A. Beyond Migdal-eder.
Q. What befell to him there?
A. Beuben lay with his fathers concubine.
Q. How old was Iſaac when he died?
A. One hundred and foureſcore yeares.
Q. Who buried him?
A. His two ſonnes Eſau and Iacob.
Q. Where went Iacob when his father Iſane died?
chapter 17 A. In the land of Canaan.
Q. What befell to Ioſeph?
A. His brethren hated him: becauſe his father loued him beſt; becauſe of his dreames, & becauſe he told his father of their euill ſayings.
Q. What would they hauehave done with him?
A. They would hauehave killed him.
Q. Who ſaued him?
A. Ruben and Iudah ſaid vntounto the reſt, he is our brother, let vsus not ſhed his blood.
Q. What did they with him?
A. They put him in a pit.
Q. What did they then?
A. They made a feaſt.
Q. Were all preſent at the feaſt?
A. No: Ruben was abſent.
Q. What did they then with Ioſeph.
A. They ſold him to the Iſhmalitiſh marchants for twentie peeces of ſiluer.
Q. When Reuben came to the pitte and found not Ioſeph there, what did he?
A. He rent his cloathes, and went to his brethren, and ſaid, The childe is not yonder, and I, whither ſhall I goe?
Q. What did the Iſomalitiſh marchants with him?
A. They carried him into Egypt, and ſold him to Potiphar an cunuch of Pharaohs.
Q. Who was Iudah his wife?
chapter 38 A. The daughter of Shuah a Cananite.
Q. How many ſonnes had he by her?
A. Three: Er, Onan, and Shelah.
Q. What became of Er, & Onan?
A. The Lord ſlewe thembecauſe of their wickedneſſe.
Q. What is ſet downe of Iudah?
A. He lay with Thamar his daughter in law.
Q. What ſaid Iudah when it was told him that Thamar his daughter in lawe had plaied the harlot and was with child?
A. He had them bring her forth and burne her.
Q. What learne you from hence?
A. That the law which was written in mans heart, taught them that who redome ſhould be puniſhed with death: for as yet the law was not giuen.
Q. When Potithar had brought Ioſeph into Egypt, what did hee with him?
A. He made him ruler ouer his houſe.
Q. What did he with him afterward?
A. He put him in priſon becauſe his wife ſlandered him, & ſaid that he would hauehave lien with her.
Q. What did Ioſeph beeing in priſon?
chapter 40 A. He receiued merciemercy at the hands of the Lord, & found fauour at the maſter of the priſō.
Q. What is ſet downe beſides whileſt he continued in priſon?
A. He expounded the chiefe butlers & chiefe bakers dreams, beeing priſoners with him.
Q. Who then deliuered Ioſeph out of priſon?
chapter 41 A. Pharaoh; becauſe he expounded his dreames.
Q. What did Pharaoh with him after this?
A. He made him ruler ouer all Egypt, taking the ring from his owne finger, and putting it on Ioſephs, he arraied Ioſeph in garments of fine linnen, and put a golden chaine about his necke.
Q. When Ioſeph was ruler ouer Egypt what did he?
A. He gathered corne, in the ſeauen years of plentie, to ſerue in the ſeauen yeares of famine, according to the interpretation of Pharaohs dreames.
Q. What hapned then?
chapter 42 A. The famine was ſo great in the land of Canaan, that Iacob was enforced to ſend his ſonnes into Egypt for corne.
Q. Did Ioſeph know his brethren?
A. Yes.
Q. How did he vſe them?
A. Roughly both in word and deed, for he called them ſpies, he accuſed them of theft, he impriſoned them, and ſent them for Beniamin.
Q. Did he this of malice, becauſe they had vſed him ſo cruelly?
A. No; he did it to trie their repentance for their former ſins, and their louelove to their brother Beniamin.
Q. How aften came Ioſephs brethren?
chapter 45 A. Twiſe.
Q. Came Beniamin?
A. Yes.
Q. What reaſon had Ioſeph to trie their louelove towards Beniamin, rather then to any of the reſt?
A. Becauſe Rahel had no more children but himſelfe and Beniamin.
Q. What did Ioſeph after this?
chapter 46 A. He made himſelfe known vntounto his brethren, and fent for his father.
Q. How long was it from that time that he was ſold by his brethren,vntill the time that he made himſelfe knowne vntounto them?
A. It was 22. yeares: at 17. he was ſold: at 30. he ſtood before Pharaoh: then ſeauen years of plentie were paſt, & in the ſecond yeare of the famine he made himſelfe knowne.
Q. Came Iacob?
A. Yes.
Q. How many ſoules came with Iacob into Egypt?
chapter 47 A. Seauentie.
Q. What ſaid Ioſeph vntounto Pharaoh concerning his father and his brethren?
A. He ſaid they were poore Shepheards in the land of Canaan.
Q. How old was Iacob then?
A. One hundreth and thirtie yeares.
Q. Where dwelt Iacob then?
A. In the land of Goſhen.
Q. When Iacob was ſicke who came to viſite him?
chapter 48 A. Ioſeph with his two ſons Manaſſeth and Ephraim.
Q. What ſaid Iacob to Ioſeph?
A. Hee commanded and made him to ſweare that hee would carrie him out of Egypt, and burie him in the land of Canaan.
Q. How long lined Iacob in Egypt?
A. Seuenteene yeares, and 130. before: in all he liued 147. yeares.
Q. Did Iacob make a will before his death?
A. Yes.
Q. To whome gaue he the kingdome?
A. To Iudah; becauſe Reuben lay with his fathers concubine, and Simcon and Leui had bloodie hands.
Q. Who had the Prieſthood?
A. Leui.
Q. How fell it out that he had the prieſthood?
A. Becauſe his hands were ſanctified with the ſlaughter of the idolaters. Exod. 32.28.
Q. Who had the double portion?
A. Ioſeph, becauſe he had more afflictions, then his brethren.
Q. How many things did belong to Reuben as to the elder?
A. Three: the kingdome: the prieſt-hood: and the double portion.
Q. Rehearſe Iacobs twelue ſons?
A. They were rehearſed before all ſauing Beniamin.
Q. Rehearſe the twelue tribes?
A. Reuben, Simeon, Iudah, Iſſachar, Zebulon, Dan, Gad, Aſher, Nepthali, Beniamin,Ephraim, and Maneſſeth.
Q. Which of Iacobs ſonnes are left forth?
A. Leui and Ioſeph: Leui, becauſe he had bloodie hands; and Ioſeph, becauſe he had the double portion, more afflictions then his brethren.
Q. Whowere placed in their ſtead?
A. Ephraim and Manaſſeth.
Q. What armes did Iacob giuegive vntounto his ſonnes?
A. Ruben water.
Simeon and Leui, inſtruments of crueltie.
Iudah, a Lyon.
Iſſachar, an aſſe.
Zabulon, a hauen for ſhips.
Dan, a Serpent.
Gad, an hoaſt of men.
Aſher, dainties for a King.
Nepthali, a hinde.
Ioſeph, a fruitefull bough ouer a wall.
Beniamin, a wolfe.
Q. When Iacob died where was he buried?
chapter 50 A. In the caue of Machpelaph, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite.
Q. Why was he buried in the land of Canaan?
A. That it might be a ſigne to his poſteritie, that they ſhould returne into the land of Canaan.
Q. How long did Ioſeph beare rule ouer the land of Egypt?
A. Foureſcore yeares.
Q. How long liued he in all?
A. One hundred and tenne yeares.
Q. When he died where was he buried?
A. He was embalmed to be carried into the land of Canaan at his brethrens returne.
Geneſeos finis.