A Hand-Truck Load of Questions:

Genesis

Dr. Dale W. Manor, Ph.D.

Old Testament Seminar

BOLD 409
(© copyright 2005)

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 A Hand-Truck Load of Questions

Genesis

Chapter 1

1. In what form was the earth when the creation process starts?

2. What moved over the face of the waters?

3. What designation is given the light?

4. What separated the waters?

5. What name was given to this separating “device?”

6. On what day did dry land appear?

7. On what day did plant life appear?

8. What function did God attribute to the sources of light in the firmament?

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9. How does God describe the source of light that was to rule the day?

10. What two kinds of creatures were made on the fifth day?

11. What kind of creatures were made on the sixth day?

12. What unique character does God give humanity?

13. What role in the created world does God give the people?

14. In verse 28, God basically gives two instructions to humanity; what are they?

15. To whom did God give the plants as a source of food?

16. On what day were the people created?

Chapter 2

17. What did God do on the seventh day?

18. Why had no plant sprung up according to chapter 2?

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19. From what source was the man created?

20. What was the animating force for the man?

21. Where did God put the man whom he had created?

22. What two specific kinds of trees are mentioned as part of the garden?

23. What are the names of the four rivers associated with the garden of Eden?

24. What role did God intend the man to perform when he placed him in the garden?

25. What prohibition does God place upon the man when he put him in the garden?

26. What does God say would happen should the man violate the prohibition?

27. What deficiency does God identify in his creation?

28. From what source were the animals formed?

29. What special operation does the man execute as far as the animals are concerned?

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30. What was the result of the animal “parade?”

31. From what source does God make the woman?

32. Does the man seem to appreciate the special creation God made for him?

33. What odd trait does the Bible say characterized the newly formed family?

Chapter 3

34. What creature is introduced in chapter 3?

35. What characteristic did the creature possess?

36. What is different in the woman’s reference to God’s directions from that which the Lord

gave in chapter 2?

37. Does Satan contradict God’s statement?

38. How does Satan say they would be like God?

39. What three evaluative processes does the woman engage in before she partakes of the fruit?

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40. Who shared in the woman’s sin?

41. What kind of clothing did the man and woman make for themselves?

42. How is God’s presence in the Garden described as he first encounters the man and woman

after they had sinned?

43. On whom did the man place the blame for his infraction?

44. On whom did the woman place the blame?

45. The penalty on the serpent involved what kind of relationship between the serpent and

people?

46. The woman’s penalty consisted of what?

47. The man’s penalty consisted of what?

48. What name does the man give his wife?

49. How does God say that the man and woman had become like God?

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50. What reason does God give for expelling Adam and Eve from the garden?

51. What did God place at the entrance of the garden to guard it?

Chapter 4

52. What were the names of the first two mentioned offspring of Adam and Eve?

53. What occupation characterized Abel?

54. What was Cain’s occupation?

55. What description is given of Abel’s offering?

56. What description is given of Cain’s offering?

57. Does God indicate that Cain might remedy his behavior?

58. What does God say would be Cain’s plight?

59. How does Cain assess his punishment?

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60. What does Cain fear might be the consequence of his banishment?

61. Who was Cain’s first son?

62. For what is Lamech known?

63. Jubal was known for what?

64. What was Tubalcain known for?

65. What had someone done to Lamech that precipitated his declaration of revenge?

66. What was the name of the replacement birth for Abel?

Chapter 5

67. What name did God give humanity?

68. According to v. 3, who was the first offspring cited from Adam?

69. How old was Adam when this first offspring was born?

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70. How long did Adam live after the citation of his first specified offspring?

71. Did Adam have any daughters?

72. What two things are notedly different about Enoch?

73. What was the total number of years that Methuselah lived?

74. How old was Noah before he had his three sons?

Chapter 6

75. To how many years does God limit humanity’s existence?

76. What description applies to the Nephilim?

77. From verse 5, to what source is the wickedness of humanity attributed?

78. What was God’s emotional reaction to the wickedness of humanity?

79. What does God determine to do since people were so wicked?

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80. Who is the notable exception to the wickedness of humanity?

81. Name the three sons of Noah.

82. Of what kind of wood does God decree that the boat should be built?

83. With what was the boat to be coated?

84. What were the dimensions of the boat?

85. How many decks was the boat to have?

86. God promises to save in the boat Noah and what other people?

87. What direction does God give regarding the preservation of the animal kingdom?

Chapter 7

88. How many pairs of animals does God direct be taken into the ark and how does he qualify

this directive?

89. What was to be the duration of the rainfall?

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90. How old was Noah when the flood came?

91. From what two sources do the waters come that flooded the earth?

92. Who shut Noah into the ark?

93. To what level above the mountains did the waters rise?

94. How long did the waters flood the earth?

Chapter 8

95. What physical phenomenon does God use to initiate the abatement of the waters?

96. On what day did the ark come to rest on the mountains of Ararat?

97. On what day did the tops of the mountains begin to appear?

98. What animal was released first from the ark?

99. What was the second animal to be released and what happened with it?

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100. What two “dates” are given as when the waters were dried up from the ground?

101. What was the first act that Noah and his family perform after disembarking?

102. What does God promise after Noah has offered his offering?

Chapter 9

103. What command does God give Noah?

104. What food sources does God explicitly provide for Noah?

105. What restriction does God place upon the consumption of animals?

106. What is the covenant that God makes with Noah and his descendants?

107. What did God provide as the sign of his covenant?

108. Who was the father of Canaan?

109. What did Noah plant?

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110. In what indiscretion does Noah find himself?

111. Who saw Noah’s compromised condition?

112. How was Noah’s condition remedied?

113. Whom did Noah curse?

114. Canaan was sentenced to be the servant of whom?

115. How long did Noah live?

Chapter 10

116. Jephthah’s descendants are described as inhabiting primarily what region?

117. Who was the “mighty hunter before the Lord?”

118. Where was located the kingdom of the “mighty hunter?”

119. From where did the Philistines come?

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120. What two particularly notorious cities are associated with the descendants of Canaan?

121. What notable event occurred in the days of Peleg?

Chapter 11

122. What characterized the people as described in v. 1?

123. Where did these people settle?

124. The people state two goals in their effort to build the tower with its top in the heavens:

what are they?

125. What concern does God express for the mission of building the tower?

126. How does God propose to interrupt the building mission?

127. Why was the site called “Babel?”

128. When was Arpachshad born in relation to the flood?

129. Who were the three sons of Terah?

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130. Who was Lot’s father?

131. Where did Haran die?

132. What was Nahor’s wife’s name?

133. From where and to where did Terah take his family?

134. Where did Terah die?

Chapter 12

135. What directive does God give Abram in v. 1?

136. What male member of Abram’s family is specifically noted to have accompanied him?

137. How old was Abram when God’s summons came?

138. What is the first town of Canaan mentioned in Abram’s itinerary?

139. What does God promise Abram while he is at this town?

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140. What does Abram do after God makes his promise?

141. Where does Abram set up an additional altar?

142. Where does Abram go from Bethel/Ai?

143. What prompted Abram to travel to Egypt?

144. What is it about Sarai that concerns Abram and how does he direct that she deal with it?

145. Who took Sarai into his house?

146. What does this man in turn do for/to Abram?

147. What does God do to the house of the man who took Sarai?

148. When the man discovers what had occurred regarding Sarai, what does he do to Abram?

Chapter 13

149. Where does Abram initially go from Egypt?

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