Unit 1
Humans need to _________God's nature by filling the world with ________ things. This is called what?
Reflect/Good; Bearing God's image
What did God promise to give to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-6? You must list everything.
Descendants, a nation, land, and a promise to bless all peoples of the earth
How many sons did the Jacob have?
12 sons
Who were responsible for outwitting Pharaoh and saving the baby boys in Exodus?
Hebrew midwives
What kept Moses from entering the Promise Land? (E.C.) Why was this bad?
He hit the rock so water came out.
(He put himself in God's place, assuming that he had the power to make the water come out.)
What was Eve dissatisfied with when she chose to sin?
Her lofty identity as an image bearer
Why is it significant that God's presence passed through the animal pieces in Genesis 15?
It communicated that God and God alone would bear the punishment for when Abraham or his descendants broke the covenant.
How did Jacob end up married to both Rachel and Leah?
He was tricked by his father-in-law, Laban.
How was the wicked command of killing Hebrew babies reversed by God later in the book of Exodus?
A later Pharaoh was himself drown along with his army at the Red Sea.
Israel's immediate response to receiving the covenant was enthusiastic. What happened later in Exodus 32?
They built a golden calf, breaking the first and second of the Ten Commandments.
What was Eve trusting when she ate the fruit?
Her own judgment
How did Abraham's testing in Genesis 22 foreshadow what God would do through Jesus?
It foreshadowed when God would let his one and only promised son be sacrificed to save sinners.
What is so significant about Leah's language to Jacob when she said "I have hired you with my mandrakes" in Genesis 30:16?
It shows that in her feverish pursuits to win Jacob's love, she had actually devalued him and treated him like a servant for hire.
What kinds of law do the two tablets of the Ten Commandments include?
The first includes laws for loving and worshipping God, and the second includes laws for loving others.
God punished the Israelites and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years. What did they do to earn this punishment?
They didn't trust that God would give them the Promised Land but instead trusted the bad report of the ten spies.
What did humans want by building the Tower of Babel?
They wanted to be like God
Leah hoped that having children would cause Jacob to ________, and Rachel hoped that having children would __________.
love her / remove her social shame
How did God intervene in the mess of Jacob's family to bring good out of sin, suffering, jealousy, and dysfunction?
God made the sons of these women the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel, and one of the tribes is the line from which Jesus would be born.
What is the best way to understand the plagues that God brings against Egypt?
They are battles in which the God of Israel goes to war against specific Egyptian gods.
After God told this generation of Israelites that they would not see the Promised Land but perish in the wilderness, what did some of them do in response?
They foolishly tried to take the Promised Land without God's presence or blessing and were defeated.
How was Noah like a second Adam?
God blessed Noah and told him to "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."
What powerful declaration from Joseph closes out the book of Genesis in chapter 50?
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good...." Sovereignty!!!
When Joseph was elevated to the second in command in Egypt, he was able to help Egypt save food during its seven years of plenty so that they would survive the seven years of famine. How does this partially fulfills what previous promise?
God's promise in Genesis 12:3 that through Abraham, God would bless all the peoples of the world.
In Exodus 19, we learn that God delivered Israel for a purpose. What was that purpose?
To be a kingdom of priests who would show the world what God is like by keeping the law given to Moses.
The book of Deuteronomy records how Moses encouraged the __________ to be faithful to the covenant just as they were about to __________.
new generation of Israelites / enter the Promised Land