General Knowledge & Dates
This word for the Christian and Jewish scriptures means "the books" (plural).
What is the Bible?
This Greek word means "mass departure," and it is the title of the second book of the Bible.
What is Exodus?
While keeping his father-in-law's flock in Midian, Moses sees this strange sight.
What is a bush that is burning but not consumed? (Exod 3:2)
This is the phrase that Moses brings to Pharaoh again and again; it is a demand.
What is "Let my people go"? (example: Exod 5:1)
This Jewish festival commemorates the Israelites' last night in Egypt.
What is Passover? (Exod 12:13, 27)
This part of the Christian Bible is regarded as Scripture by Christians only.
What is the New Testament?
After the midwives fail him, Pharaoh orders all his people to throw every Hebrew baby boy into this.
What is the Nile river? (Exod 1:22)
God tells Moses to do this, because the place where he is standing is holy ground.
What is take off his sandals? (Exod 3:5)
Pharaoh's response to the first demand is that the Hebrews must make the same number of bricks without being given this.
What is straw? (Exod 5:6–18)
To be protected from the final plague, each Israelite household does this to its house.
What is paint the blood of a slaughtered lamb on the doorposts and lintel? (Exod 12:7, 13)
The date of 1300 BCE on the course timeline marks this event.
What is the Exodus from Egypt?
She finds the baby among the reeds and raises him as her own son, though his birth mother is hired to nurse him.
Who is Pharaoh's daughter? (Exod 2:5–10)
At the bush, God says God has seen this in Egypt, has heard the people's cry, and has come down to deliver them.
What is the misery (or suffering) of the Israelites? (Exod 3:7–8)
Pharaoh's first reply to Moses is this question, followed by the claim that he does not know him.
What is "Who is the LORD?" (Exod 5:2)
With the roasted lamb, the Israelites eat these two other foods (name at least one of them).
What are unleavened bread and bitter herbs? (Exod 12:8)
This "c" term means the list of authoritative texts that function as Scripture for a specific tradition.
What is the canon?
Pharaoh's daughter gives this reason for naming the baby "Moses."
What is "because I drew him out of the water"? (Exod 2:10)
When this word appears in small capital letters in an English Bible, it stands for the divine name in Hebrew: YHWH.
What is "LORD"?
After the tenth and final plague, Pharaoh summons Moses and Aaron in the night and does this.
What is order the Israelites to get out of Egypt? (Exod 12:31–32)
The Israelites eat with sandals on, staff in hand, and in a hurry, showing they are ready for this.
What is leaving Egypt immediately? (Exod 12:11; see 12:34, 39)
On the course timeline, the years 2000–1300 BCE belong to this period, the subject of Genesis 12–50.
What is the period of the Ancestors?
The Hebrew word for Moses' basket, tevah, appears in only one other biblical story, where it names this.
What is Noah's ark? (Gen 6:14; Exod 2:3)
Note: both times, a vessel carries someone through deadly water.
When Moses finally begs God to send someone else, God grows angry but changes the plan and sends this person to speak for Moses.
Who is his brother Aaron? (Exod 4:13–16)
Exodus explains the cause of Pharaoh's hard heart in these three different ways.
What are: Pharaoh hardens his own heart; his heart "was hardened," with no cause named; and God hardens his heart? (Exod 8:15; 7:13; 9:12)
The LORD will not allow this figure to enter the Israelites' houses. Later traditions and interpretations call it the "angel of death," but Exodus never actually uses that phrase.
Who is the destroyer? (Exod 12:23)