Genesis 27 structural markers and interpretive questions done my my student Janet.

Here is Janet's labeling of our sunday school passage as well as the generic interpretive questions for each label(structural marker)

My work on Genesis 27 "NASB" (I hope I can improve my observations and also my understanding in English tongue.

BIOLOGICAL
Vs. 1-4 ABRAHAM'S REQUEST TO ESAU.

Temporal=Now v.1-when v.1- now then v.3.
Action-purpose= That v.1
Progression= AND vs.3,4
Request/Petition= Please v.3
Attention-getter= BEHOLD v.2
Action-result= so that v.4

(I capitalized the Structural Markers)
1 NOW it came about, WHEN Isaac was old AND his eyes were too dim to see, THAT he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son." AND he said TO him, "Here I am." 2 Isaac said, "BEHOLD NOW", I am old AND I do not know the day of my death. 3 NOW THEN, PLEASE take your gear, your quiver AND your bow, AND go out TO the field and hunt game for me; 4 AND prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, AND bring it to me that I may eat, SO THAT my soul may bless you before I die."

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS:vs.1-4
@Instrumentation Questions: So that v.4
Key terms: in order that, so that (statement of purpose); by, through (description of means)
Questions pertaining to statement of purpose:
What is the meaning of the purpose statement itself?
How does it illumine the means?
How does it illumine the end?
How does the means cause or produce the end?
Why did the writer include this purpose statement?
What are the implications?
Questions pertaining to description of means:
How does the writer describe this means or agency, and what is the meaning of this description?
What is the meaning of the ways in which this means produces the end?
Why did the writer thus present this means in such a way as to produce this end?
What are the implications?

@Attention- Getter Questions: 'BEHOLD v.2 :
Identify the person or thing that is introduced following the attention-getter.
Is the person or thing brand new to the story or discussion, or is this a reintroduction?
What role does this newly-introduced person or thing play in the context?
Does this introduction signal a change to a new scene, or does it just add a new element to the existing scene?
What does the story or discussion gain from the new person or element?
If the person or thing occurs with a meta-comment, what is the key thought that is introduced?
Are there other forward-pointing tools used along with the attention getter? What do they contribute? How do the tools work together?
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Vs. 5-10 REBEKAH'S REQUEST TO JACOB

TEMPORAL =While v.5a, When 5b, before v.7 Now v.8, AS v.9
Background departure =Went v.5
Attention-getter =Behold v.6
INFERENCE = therefore v.8
COMMAND= bring me v.7,v.9- listen to me v8- go now v.9
Action-purpose=that v.10
Action-result= so that v.10

5 Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau.SO WHEN Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home, 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "BEHOLD, I heard your father speak TO your brother Esau, saying, 7 'BRING ME some game AND prepare a savory dish for me, THAT I may eat, AND bless you in the presence of the Lord BEFORE my death.' 8 NOW THEREFORE, my son, listen to me AS I command you. 9 GO NOW to the flock and BRING me two choice young goats FROM THERE, THAT I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such AS he loves. 10 THEN you shall bring it to your father,THAT he may eat, SO that he may bless you before his death."

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS: VS. 5-10
@Attention- Getter Questions: 'BEHOLD v.6 :
Identify the person or thing that is introduced following the attention-getter.
Is the person or thing brand new to the story or discussion, or is this a reintroduction?
What role does this newly-introduced person or thing play in the context?
Does this introduction signal a change to a new scene, or does it just add a new element to the existing scene?
What does the story or discussion gain from the new person or element?
If the person or thing occurs with a meta-comment, what is the key thought that is introduced?
Are there other forward-pointing tools used along with the attention getter? What do they contribute? How do the tools work together?

@Causation Questions: NOW THEREFORE V.8
Key terms: therefore, consequently
How does this cause produce this effect?
What are the major elements involved in this movement from cause to effect, and what is the meaning of each? Why did the writer include this causation?
What are the implications?
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Vs. 11 -14 REBEKAH IMPERATIVELY COMMANDED JACOB.

Attention-getter= behold v.11
Conditional Result=Then v. 12
Contrast=But v.13
emphatic=only v.13b
Series= And v.12,13,14

11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "BEHOLD", Esau my brother is a hairy man AND I am a smooth man. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, AND I will bring upon myself a curse AND not a blessing."13 BUT his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; ONLY obey my voice, AND GO, get them for me." 14 SO he went and got them, AND brought them to his mother; AND his mother made savory food SUCH AS his father loved.

INTERPRETIVE QUESTION: VS. 11-14
@Attention- Getter Questions: 'BEHOLD v.11 :
Identify the person or thing that is introduced following the attention-getter.
Is the person or thing brand new to the story or discussion, or is this a reintroduction?
What role does this newly-introduced person or thing play in the context?
Does this introduction signal a change to a new scene, or does it just add a new element to the existing scene?
What does the story or discussion gain from the new person or element?
If the person or thing occurs with a meta-comment, what is the key thought that is introduced?
Are there other forward-pointing tools used along with the attention getter? What do they contribute? How do the tools work together?

@Contrast Questions (BUT v.13)
Key terms: but, however
What major differences are here emphasized by the writer?
What is the precise and specific meaning of each of these differences, and why did he deal with them as he did?
What are the implications?
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Vs. 15- 17 REBEKAH'S PREPARATION FOR JACOB

Narative/ Background-action vs.15-17
Temporal=Then v.15
Progression=And vs.15,16

15 THEN Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, AND put them on Jacob her younger son. 16 AND she put the skins of the young goats on his hands AND on the smooth part of his neck. 17 She ALSO gave the savory food AND the bread, which she had made, TO her son Jacob.

INTERPRETIVE QUESTION:VS.15-17
@Preparation/realization Questions:
What is the meaning of this background material?
How does it prepare for what follows?
Why did the writer prepare for what follows?
Why did the writer prepare for what follows in this way?
What are the implications?
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Vs. 18-20 .JACOB LIED TO HIS FATHER AND DECEIT ESAU.

Temporal=then v.18, as v.19b
Question-Answer= v.18c,20a The statement of a question and the answer to that question.
Action-purpose=That vs.19
Ground/Reason= Because v.20b

18 THEN he came to his father and said, "My father." AND he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" 19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done AS you told me. Get up, please, sit AND eat of my game, THAT you may bless me."20 Isaac said TO his son, "HOW is it THAT you have it so quickly, my son?" AND he said, "Because the Lord your God caused it TO happen TO me."

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS: VS.18-20
@Interrogation Questions v.18,20
Questions pertaining to problem/solution type:
What is the meaning of the problem presented here?
How is this problem solved?
What are the major elements involved in the movement from problem to solution, and what is the
meaning of each?
Why did the writer include this interrogation?
What are the implications?
Questions pertaining to question/answer type:
What is the meaning of this question?
How does the answer address this question, and what is the full and precise meaning of this answer?
Why did this writer include this interrogation?
What are the implications?

@Substantiation Questions v.20b
Key terms: for, because, since
How does the substantiatory passage cause (that is, support or give reason for) the preceding passage?
What are the major elements involved in this movement from effect to cause, and what is the meaning of each? Why did the writer include this substantiation?
What are the implications?
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Vs. 21-29 ABRAHAM UNKNOWINGLY BLESSED JACOB.

Ground/reason= BECAUSE V.23
Alternative=Whether v.21
Locative=come close v.21
result= SO v.23b,V.25
Temporal= Then v.21,26-Now v.28
Progression = AND vs.22,24,25,28,29
Series= And vs.28,29a,29b
Command= Please come v.24,26,
Question-answer=The statement of a question and the answer to that question.v.24,28

21 THEN Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come close, THAT I MAY feel you, my son, WHETHER you are really my son Esau or not." 22 SO Jacob came close TO Isaac his father, AND he felt him AND said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, BUT the hands are the hands of Esau." 23 He did not recognize him, BECAUSE his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands; SO he blessed him. 24 And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am." 25 SO he said, "Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son's game, that I may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank. 26 Then his father Isaac said to him, "Please come close and kiss me, my son." 27 So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son Is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed; 28 Now may God give you of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine;29 May peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, And may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, And blessed be those who bless you."

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS:
@Substantiation Questions v.23
Key terms: for, because, since
How does the substantiatory passage cause (that is, support or give reason for) the preceding passage?
What are the major elements involved in this movement from effect to cause, and what is the meaning of each? Why did the writer include this substantiation?
What are the implications?

@Interrogation Questions
Questions pertaining to problem/solution type:
What is the meaning of the problem presented here?
How is this problem solved?
What are the major elements involved in the movement from problem to solution, and what is the
meaning of each?
Why did the writer include this interrogation?
What are the implications?
Questions pertaining to question/answer type:
What is the meaning of this question?
How does the answer address this question, and what is the full and precise meaning of this answer?
Why did this writer include this interrogation?
What are the implications?
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VS. 30-38 THE STOLEN BLESSING FOR ESAU.

Temporal= now v.30,37c,then v.31,33,37c
locative= from v.30,came in from v.30c
Series= And vs.30,31a,31b,32,34,36b,36c,37a,37b
Comparison=Also v.31
Action-result= that v.30c, SO v.38c
Action-purpose= that v.31
Background-Exclamation=v.34 The speaker is breaking out into excited speech relative to a main statement
Question-Answer= Who v.32,33,36 What v.37c The statement of a question and the answer to that question.

30 Now it came about, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had hardly gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 Then he ALSO made savory food, and brought it to his father; and he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me." 32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." 33 Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed." 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!" 35 And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing." 36 THEN he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, AND behold, now he has taken away my blessing." AND he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" 37 BUT Isaac replied to Esau, "BEHOLD, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; AND with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?" 38 Esau said to his father, "Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS:
@Repetition Questions BEHOLD vs.36,37
What happens right after the repetition?
Is some new person, scene, or element introduced?
Is there a switch to a different or previous scene, like a ‘meanwhile back at the ranch…’?
Is there an unexpected shift in the conversation, rebutting or rejecting something from the previous speech?
Is one person’s speech broken up into smaller parts by repeating ‘and he said’?
Why would the writer break the speech here into smaller parts?
Is there a change in the theme?
Is the second part following the repletion more important than the first part?
Are there other forward-pointing tools used along with the repetition? What do they contribute?

@Interrogation Questions vs. Who v.32,33,36 What v.37c
Questions pertaining to problem/solution type:
What is the meaning of the problem presented here?
How is this problem solved?
What are the major elements involved in the movement from problem to solution, and what is the
meaning of each?
Why did the writer include this interrogation?
What are the implications?
Questions pertaining to question/answer type:
What is the meaning of this question?
How does the answer address this question, and what is the full and precise meaning of this answer?
Why did this writer include this interrogation?
What are the implications?
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VS. 39-40 Abraham blessed Esau prophetic way.

Temporal=Then v.39
Progression=And v.39,
Series=And v.40
Locative=From v.39,40
Action-Manner=BY .40
Action-purpose= that v.40
Contrast=But v.40

39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Behold, away FROMthe fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling, AND away FROM the dew of heaven FROM above.
40 "BY your sword you shall live, AND your brother you shall serve; BUT it shall come about when you become restless, THAT you will break his yoke FROM your neck."

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS:
Contrast Questions v.40b
Key terms: but, however
What major differences are here emphasized by the writer?
What is the precise and specific meaning of each of these differences, and why did he deal with them as he did?
What are the implications?

@Instrumentation Questions v.40
Key terms: in order that, so that (statement of purpose); by, through (description of means)
Questions pertaining to statement of purpose:
What is the meaning of the purpose statement itself?
How does it illumine the means?
How does it illumine the end?
How does the means cause or produce the end?
Why did the writer include this purpose statement?
What are the implications?
Questions pertaining to description of means:
How does the writer describe this means or agency, and what is the meaning of this description?
What is the meaning of the ways in which this means produces the end?
Why did the writer thus present this means in such a way as to produce this end?
What are the implications?
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VS.41- 45 REBEKAH SENT JACOB TO HARAN TO FLEE ESAU.

Action-result= So v.41
Ground=Because v.41, Forv.41, For v.41b
Progression= Then v.41b
Temporal= Now when v.42 Until v.45
Attention-getter= Behold v.42
Action-Manner=By v.42
Inference=Therefore v.43
command=Obey my voice v.43
Background-Exclamation=v.43 The speaker is breaking out into excited speech relative to a main statement

41 SO Esau bore a grudge against Jacob BECAUSE of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; AND Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning FOR my father are near; THEN I will kill my brother Jacob." 42 NOW WHEN the words of her elder son Esau were reported TO Rebekah, she SENT AND called her younger son Jacob, AND said TO him, "BEHOLD your brother Esau IS consoling himself concerning you BY planning to kill you. 43 NOW therefore, my son, OBEY my voice, AND arise, flee TO Haran, TO my brother Laban! 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury subsides, 45 UNTIL your brother's anger against you subsides AND he forgets what you did to him. THEN I will send and get you from there. WHY should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS: VS.41-45
Substantiation Questions vs.41
Key terms: for, because, since
How does the substantiatory passage cause (that is, support or give reason for) the preceding passage?
What are the major elements involved in this movement from effect to cause, and what is the meaning of each? Why did the writer include this substantiation?
What are the implications?
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Vs. 46 REBEKAH EMOTIONALLY EXPRESSING HER SELF TO ISAAC ABOUT THE SITUATION.

Ground=Because v.46
Conditional=IF v.46b
Question-Answer= What v.46b
46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am tired of living BECAUSE of the daughters of Heth; IFJacob takes a wife FROM the daughters of Heth, like these, FROM the daughters of the land, WHAT good will my life be to me?"

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS:
@Substantiation Questions
Key terms: for, because, since
How does the substantiatory passage cause (that is, support or give reason for) the preceding passage?
What are the major elements involved in this movement from effect to cause, and what is the meaning of each? Why did the writer include this substantiation?
What are the implications?
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Genesis 33 will next..I hope I could finish. Thank You GOD for this opportunity to learn Your Word. Amen.