Cities and Places
This is the name of the Garden where Adam and Eve were created and where God placed both the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
What is Eden?
This is the tribe of Priests that was placed in charge of overseeing the Tabernacle and God's Law. Moses and Aaron belonged to this tribe.
Who is the Tribe of Levi?
This was Jacob's twin brother who was an avid hunter and known for being more hairier than his fair-skinned brother.
Who is Esau?
God makes a covenant with this man that He shall never flood the earth again as a penalty of man's sin and that "while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
Who is Noah?
This woman is famous for looking back while Sodom and Gomorrah was being destroyed.
Who is Lot's Wife?
This is the body of water that Moses parted and the Israelites walked through as they made their Exodus out of Egypt.
What is the Red Sea?
This is the son whose birth led to Rachel's death (Jacob's second wife). King Saul (David's rival for Israel's throne) was a descendant of this tribe.
Who is Benjamin?
This is the High Priest of Midian whose daughter Moses married. This man also gives Moses the advice to set up an organized system of overseers for the Israelites while they are wandering in the desert.
Who is Jethro?
God promises this man that he shall have an heir and that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars.
Who is Abraham?
This woman was Laban's sister and received jewelry as a gift from Abraham's servant.
Who is Rebekah?
This is the land that Abraham was called out of.
What is Ur?
This is the tribe of kings whose descendants include Christ and David. Before he dies, Jacob blesses this son by saying "the scepter shall not depart from _______, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet."
Who is Judah?
This was Moses's mother who placed him in a reed basket to save his life. (Fun Fact: She also was hired by Pharaoh's daughter to be Moses's nurse.)
Who is Jochebed?
This man promised to give his daughter, Rachel, to Jacob as a wife, but when it came time for the wedding, he beguiled Jacob and gave him his firstborn daughter, Leah, instead.
Who is Laban?
This woman was very beautiful, and the Pharaoh of Egypt gave a man livestock and slaves as compensation for her.
Who is Sarai/Sarah?
What is the name of the mountain where Moses receives the Ten Commandments from God?
What is Sinai?
This son of Jacob had two sons: Ephraim and Manasseh. This is the only son whose tribe is split into two half-tribes in honor of his two sons.
Who is Joseph?
These are the sons of Aaron who offered "strange" and "unauthorized" fire before the Lord. As a consequence of their offer, God sends a fire to consume them.
This was a special vow made to the Lord in which a man or woman had to fulfill the following statues for a time:
- He or she shall abstain from wine, vinegar, or any strong drinks made from grapes.
- He or she will not the hair on his or her head.
- He or she will not go near a dead body.
What is the Nazarite Vow?
This man's wife was originally from Midian and is the daughter of a High Priest.
*Double Jeopardy: What is her name?
Who is Moses's wife (Zipporah)?
This is the name of the Promised Land, where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all lived.
*Double Jeopardy: Who prophesied that this land would be subdued and conquered?
What is the Land of Canaan?
*Double Jeopardy: See Genesis 9
This is the son who when his brothers threw Joseph in the pit, and plotted to sell him, planned on returning to the pit to free Joseph. This was the first born of Jacob's sons. Leah was his mother.
Who is Reuben?
This was the King of Salem who blessed Abram. He was a righteous king and priest who brought out bread and wine for their meal. The writer of Hebrews compares him to Christ, and some theologians speculate that he is a typology/foreshadowing of Christ in the Old Testament.
Who is Melchizedek?
This was a year of celebration that followed seven cycles of seven years (49 years) in which the Israelites were required to free any of their indentured servants and forgive any financial debts.
What is the Year of Jubilee?
This woman was married to two of Judah's sons. She seduced her father-in-law was deemed by Judah to be "more righteous than [him]." She is included in Christ's geneaology.
Who is Tamar?