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entateuch B1
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Questions by Alex Ogden
Iesson B1 6enesIs 14
1. What was the first recorded act by God?
2. What was the condition of the earth in the beginning?
3. What was created on: Day 1
Day 2 Day 3
Day 4 Day 5
Day 6 Day 7
4. What do the pronouns "us" and "our" indicate in Gen.1:26?
5. Who was in the beginning with God?
6. And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold it was
7. What concept is introduced on the seventh day that is a major theme in scripture?

8. Name and describe the place God made for man:
9. What law was given to Adam and Eve in the garden?
10. How was a suitable mate produced for man?
11. What is the law for marriage?
12. Satan took what form in the garden?
13. Describe the fall of Eve, then Adam?
14. What did Satan do to cause Eve to sin?
15. What did their actions constitute? (cf.1 Jn.3:4)
16. What was the punishments for their sin?
17. Explain 3:15:
18. Why did Cain and Abel bring offerings to God? (cf.Lk.1:6; Heb.11:4; 1 Jn.3:12)
19. Why did God accept Abel and not Cain?
20. How did Cain react to being rejected?
21. What was Cain's punishment?
22. Give scripture and name of those connected with these historical firsts:
a. Polygamist b. Musician
c. Metal worker d. Son through whom we descended
Iesson B2 6enesIs SB
1. How old were most of the patriarchs before Noah when they died?
2. How old was Adam at his death?
3. The generations from Adam to Noah are:

4. Why was Enoch's life on earth limited to only 365 years?
5. How many years before the flood did Methuselah die?
6. Name Noah's three sons:
7. What was the cause for the growth of evil among men?
8. Why did God not destroy all men as He had desired to do?
9. Give the dimensions of the ark (a cubit is approximately 19 inches):
a. Length b. Width c. Height
10. How long was it from the announcement of destruction of the world before it actually took
place?
11. Had there ever been rain before the time of the flood?
12. What was to be taken into the ark?
13. How old were the sons of Noah when they entered the ark?
14. It rained for days, covered the mountains by cubits, prevailed upon the earth for
days, the waters decreased until the month, when mountain tops were seen,
and the waters dried up by the day of the month of Noah's year of life.
15. Why did Noah leave the ark when he did?
16. What was God's purpose in taking animals on the ark?
17. What kind of animals did Noah use in sacrifices after leaving the ark?
18. Did the flood cause the extinction of any animals?
19. Can you predict how often God will destroy all evil men from the face of the earth and
"start over again"?
20. What lessons can be learned about authority from the story of the flood?
21. What New Testament command is likened unto the ark?
22. What similarities can you list between the ark and the church?
Iesson B3 6enesIs 912
1. When did the fear of man originate in animals?
2. When did God first give permission for man to eat meat?
a. What was man told to eat prior to this time?
3. Were there any limitations connected with eating meats?
4. Distinguish between murder and vengeance as seen in this passage:
5. After all living creatures were destroyed by the flood, how was Noah and his sons to
replenish the earth?
6. Will God ever destroy the earth with a flood because of man's wickedness?
7. Following the flood, what covenant did God make with all living creatures?
8. What evidence of God's covenant do we see to this day?
9. Everyone living today descended from
10. When Ham dishonored his father, toward whom was the curse directed?
11. Before the tower of Babel, how many languages were there?
12. What was the sin of the people with reference to Babel?
13. What stopped their activities abruptly?
14. Compare the lives after the flood to those before:
15. The generations from Noah to Abram are:


16. Which of Terah's sons died before Terah? Where?
17. List the three main promises by God to Abram and show when each was fulfilled:
18. Why did Abram leave Haran?
19. What does that have to do with our faith?
20. Why did Abram go to Egypt?
21. Why did Abram lie about Sarai?
22. Why did plagues come upon Pharaoh?
23. Was there any truth to what Abram had said about Sarah?
24. Are half-truths acceptable today?
Iesson B4 6enesIs 1311
1. How is Abraham described to be rich?
2. What problem existed between Abram and Lot?
3. What solution did Abram offer?
4. On what basis did Lot make his choice?
5. Is this generally a good way to make such a choice?
6. Describe the spiritual condition of those in Sodom?
7. Which of the promises of Gen.12:1-3 was repeated to Abram?
8. These four kings, , went to battle against
these five kings, .
9. How did this war affect Lot?
10. Describe Abram's rescue of Lot?
11. Whom did Abram meet and pay tithes to on his returning?
12. What significance was there to this person and this event?
13. Jehovah promised Abram how many descendants?
14. What was Abram's response to this promise?
15. Describe the amount of land God promised to give the descendants of Abram:
16. When Abram and Sarai had no children, what plan did they put in effect to get children?
17. Describe the attitude Hagar developed toward Sarai:
18. What did Sarai then do with Hagar?
19. What promise did Hagar receive from God?
20. How old was Abram when Ishmael was born?
21. How old was Abram when God again appeared to him with a promise of a son?
22. To what was Abram's name changed?
23. What covenant was given Abraham?
24. What was the purpose of circumcision?
25. On what day was Jesus circumcised and why (Lk.2:21)?
26. To what was Sarai's name changed?
27. What was Abraham's reaction when told by God that Sarah would bare a son and why?
28. Ishmael was years old when Abraham circumcised him.
Iesson BS 6enesIs 1B20
1. Describe the reception Abraham gave the three strangers:
2. Who were the three strangers?
3. What was their message to Abraham?
4. What was Sarah's reaction when she overheard what they said to Abraham?
5. What one thing about Jehovah should have caused Sarah to accept the message with faith
and joy?
6. For what reason was Jehovah going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
7. What was Abraham's argument for not destroying Sodom?
8. Why did Abraham stop at 10 righteous souls in Sodom to save the city from destruction?
9. What is the significance that Lot "sat in the gate of Sodom?"
10. What did Lot NOT want the 2 angels to do when they first came to Sodom?
11. What did the men of the city want to do with the 2 strangers?
12. What did Lot offer to do instead?
13. What stopped their actions?
14. Counting Lot, what is the minimum number of persons in his family?
15. What instructions did the angels give Lot as he left Sodom?
16. Why did Lot not want to flee to the mountains?
17. How many of his family members perished and why?
18. Illustrate from this passage that God expects obedience of His law to the letter:
19. Why did Lot leave Zoar?
20. Describe the sin of Lot's daughters:
21. What nations came from these sins?
22. When in the country of Abimelech, what deception did Abraham engage in?
23. Who also participated?
24. What does God refer to Abraham as being?
25. Besides being Abraham's wife, what was Sarah to Abraham?
26. What had God done to the household of Abimelech?
Iesson B6 6enesIs 2124
1. What did God do to Sarah?
2. What does the name Isaac mean?
3. How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?
4. What caused Sarah to want Ishmael sent away from home?
5. "Cast out this handmaid..." is used to illustrate what teaching in the New Testament (hint:
Gal.4:21-31)?
6. Why did Abraham do as Sarah had asked concerning Ishmael?
7. What did God promise pertaining to Ishmael?
8. When the food and water ran out, what did Hagar do?
9. How and by what power were Hagar and Ishmael saved from death?
10. Who came to Abraham to obtain a peace treaty?
11. Why was he reproved by Abraham?
12. For what reason was Abraham commanded to offer Isaac?
13. Are we put to the test today (cf.Rev.2:10)?
14. Was what Abraham was asked to do understandable by human reasoning?
15. How did he then respond?
16. Describe Abraham's attitude and faith (Heb.11:17-19):
17. What restrained him from killing Isaac?
18. What was accomplished by this trial?
19. Sarah lived to the age of years; she was years old when Isaac was born;
therefore Isaac was years old when she died.
20. From whom did Abraham purchase land to bury Sarah?
21. Where did he bury Sarah?
22. After the death of Sarah and the period of mourning, what did Abraham charge his chief
servant to do?
23. Who appeared at the well in Nahor?
24. When the servant found out who she was, what did he do?
25. How was the servant received at the house of Bethuel?
26. The servant would not eat until he did what?
27. How did Bethuel and Laban respond to his request?
28. How long did the men vacation in that land?
Iesson B1 6enesIs 2S2B
1. After Sarah's death and Isaac's marriage, Abraham took to wife, and had
more sons.
2. Which son plays an important role in God's eternal plan?
3. What did Abraham do with all his sons besides Isaac?
4. How old was Abraham when he died?
5. Ishmael lived years and begat princes thereby fulfilling what prophecy?
6. How long were Isaac and Rebecca married before bearing children?
7. Name the two sons?
8. What brought about the birth?
9. Contrast the personalities of Jacob and Esau:
10. Why was Esau called Edom?
11. Why did Isaac go to the land of the Philistines?
12. What sin did he commit there?
13. Why did Abimelech ask Isaac to leave?
14. What did Isaac have trouble with on leaving Philistine?
15. How did he solve the problem?
16. Why did the king who drove Isaac out come to him?
17. As Isaac grew nearer death, he asked to go and prepare him
so that Isaac could him.
18. Tell what "the birthright", and "the blessing" were:
19. By what means was the command of Isaac thwarted?
20. Why?
21. Who was behind it?
22. Was the subservience of Esau to Jacob to last forever?
23. How did Rebecca save Jacob from the threats of Esau?
24. What did Jacob see and hear at Luz (Bethel)?
25. What was the message of God to him?
26. What was his promise to God?
Iesson BB 6enesIs 2932
1. When you wanted to meet people in that land, where did you wait?
2. Whom did Jacob ask about as he saw those standing there?
3. Why were they waiting there?
4. Whom did they point out to him?
5. How did Jacob great Rachel?
6. How did Laban receive Jacob?
7. What did Laban propose to Jacob?
8. What did Jacob propose as his wages?
9. Why did he choose as he did?
10. Was it a long & hard wait?
11. Why did he not receive as he had chosen?
12. How did he finally get his choice?
13. God responded to the favoritism of Jacob in what way?
14. How did Rachel respond to her lack?
15. This stirred up what response in Leah?
16. How many sons had Leah borne before Rachel had a son?
17. What did Jacob choose as his wages after he had paid his last installment for Rachel?
18. How did Jacob's flocks become great in number?
19. Over what did jealousy arise?
20. What did Jacob decide to do?
21. How much notice did he give Laban of his plans?
22. Did this please Laban?
23. What one item of Laban's was stolen in their departure?
24. How was Laban fooled into missing his idol during the search?
25. What is the origin of the "Mizpah Benediction," (31:49)?
26. What news reached Jacob as he proceeded toward home?
27. Why was it so ominous?
28. How did he react to this message?
29. During what strange event did Jacob receive a name change?
30. List the sons of Jacob in birth order by mother:
Iesson B9 6enesIs 3331
1. What did Jacob see coming to meet him?
2. How did he arrange his family to prepare for the meeting?
3. Was the meeting as bad as Israel invisioned?
4. To what area did Esau return after the meeting?
5. What does the name Succoth mean?
6. Jacob dwelled in the city of , whose prince was who had a son
called .
7. What happened to Dinah in the city?
8. What ruse did the sons of Jacob use to get the people of the city in a weakened and
unprepared state?
9. Who moved to punish the Shechemites for the sin of Shechem?
10. Was their action pleasing to God (See also Gen.49:5-7)?
11. What went with the spoil of Shechem?
12. Where did God tell Israel to move to?
13. Before worshipping, Israel put away all the
14. Do we have the same need, today (Eph.5:5, Col.3,5)?
15. What two beloved persons died in the vicinity of Bethel?
16. What occasioned the death of Rachel?
17. Why does Rachel's name occur in the prophecy of Jer.31:15 and Matt.2:18?
18. Of what sin was Reuben guilty?
19. Did it have a lasting effect (Gen.49:4)?
20. How long did Isaac live?
21. Esau separated from Jacob and went to and was also called
22. How old was Joseph at the beginning of his troubles?
23. Recount his dreams:
24. What was significant about them?
25. Compare Reuben and Judah as to kindness, responsibility, and leadership in the matter of
Joseph:
26. How was Jacob fooled about the sale of Joseph?
Iesson B10 6enesIs 3B41
1. The three sons Judah had by a Canannite wife were:
2. Why did Er fail to have children by Tamar, his wife?
3. Why did she also have no children by the next brother?
4. What promise did Judah make to Tamar?
5. What act was Judah willing to do secretly himself but for which he was ready to put his
daughter-in-law to death?
6. How was his inconsistency shown?
7. The birth of her twins was much like the birth of another woman's children we have
studied. Who was the other woman and how were they alike?
8. What happened to Joseph when he got to Egypt?
9. How did he react to the persecution from his own family?
10. Did he rebel against everyone else including God?
11. How much did Potiphar trust Joseph?
12. What shortened his tranquility?
13. Give the reasons that Joseph did not agree to the request of Potiphar's wife:
14. What did Potiphar's wife say had happened?
15. What did Potiphar do?
16. Did he finally turn against God for this added misery?
17. What did the keeper of the prison do with Joseph?
18. Who joined Joseph in prison, and why?
19. How did Joseph help them?
20. Give the dreams and their interpretation:
21. How long was it before the butler remembered his promise, and what prompted his
memory?
22. Give the particulars of his dream?
23. What was the interpretation of the dream, and the advice which Joseph gave?
24. How did Pharaoh implement the advice?
25. What did Pharaoh give Joseph for interpreting the dream?
26. Name the sons born to Joseph during this period:
Iesson B11 6enesIs 424S
1. What caused Jacob to send his sons to Egypt?
2. Who of his sons went?
3. Who did not go and why?
4. When the men got to Egypt, to whom did they go?
5. Why was he not recognized?
6. What was fulfilled by the actions of the sons of Jacob in 42:6?
7. In describing their family, how did they describe Joseph?
8. He accused them of what crime?
9. What did Joseph do with them?
10. Why?
11. To what did they attribute their problems?
12. When their sacks were filled, what were the servants commanded to do with their money?
13. When they opened the sacks, how did they feel?
14. In discussing their return with Benjamin, what was Reuben's proposal to assure Jacob of
Benjamin's return?
15. Was it accepted by Jacob?
16. Did he seem to worry that much about Simeon?
17. What did Judah say to assure Benjamin's safety?
18. When they got to Egypt, they feared because they were to
19. When Joseph saw Benjamin, what did he do?
20. What trap did Joseph set for the brothers?
21. Relate Judah's eloquent plea for his brother, "Daddy's Favorite," and compare it to his
attitude in the sale of Joseph:
22. How did the appeal of Judah effect Joseph?
23. What did he immediately command?
24. When the brethren knew Joseph, how did they feel?
25. By what argument did Joseph convince them that he was not going to destroy them?
26. Is it possible that even a sinful act be turned by God into a blessing?
27. What did Joseph command the brothers to do?
28. When Pharaoh heard of the coming of the family what did he propose and provide?
29. Describe Jacob's reaction to hearing that Joseph was alive:
Iesson B12 6enesIs 46S0
1. What promise did God say would be fulfilled in Egypt?
2. How was Israel and all his stuff taken to Egypt?
3. Four grandsons of Israel did not make the trip. Who were they and why did they not make
the trip?
4. How many were there in the family of Israel?
5. Where did the Israelites settle and why?
6. Describe the reunion of Joseph and his father Israel:
7. What did Pharaoh want some of the men to do?
8. How old was Jacob when he went to Egypt?
9. How old was Joseph at this time (41:46; 45:6)?
10. What was Jacob's estimate of the quality of the years of his life?
11. What did the people of Egypt use to purchase their food?
1st 2nd 3rd
12. What was done with the people of the land?
13. In the terms of our times, the people became
14. How did the people of Israel fare during this time?
15. How long did Jacob live in the land?
16. What promise did Jacob extract from Joseph?
17. How did Jacob arrange for Joseph to receive a double inheritance?
18. Give the reasons the first three sons of Jacob were disqualified concerning the blessing of
Jacob:
19. Which son received the blessing of preeminence in the family?
20. Whose later work is implied in the blessing of this son?
21. Where, specifically, did Jacob want to be buried?
22. Who else were buried there?
23. What was done with the body of Jacob?
24. How long did the people mourn for him before he was buried?
25. What town (area) was named by the Canaanites because of the actions of the Israelites
on their trip to bury Jacob?
26. What were the sons of Jacob concerned about after his death?
27. How did Joseph look upon the past sins of his brothers against him?
28. How long did Joseph live?
29. What did Joseph want done with his bones?