Genesis 11
What did God do to scatter the people of the city of Babel?
Confused their language.
What did God ask Abram to do?
Leave your country, people, and father's household to the land I will show you.
Abram oftentimes set up two specific things when in a new area - what were they?
He pitched his tent and built an alter to the Lord.
What was happening when Lot was captured?
A war.
Recite Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
What was Abram's wife's name?
Sarai.
God told Abram that he would turn him into a..
Great nation.
How did Abram obtain most of his possessions?
Pharaoh had given him goods and forced him to leave Egypt after he lied.
What did King Melchizedek do to Abram?
He blessed him.
Who committed the first sin and what was it?
Satan; pride - he wanted to be God.
What was Abram's father's name?
Terah.
Where did Abram lead his family during the famine?
Egypt.
Why did Abram and Lot split up?
Their herders began to argue because there was not enough resources for all of their livestock.
What did Abram give Melchizedek?
A tenth of all he had.
Why was Cain banished?
He killed Abel after Abel's sacrifice was accepted while Cain's was not; jealousy.
Where were Terah, Abram, Sarai, and Lot headed when they settled in Harran?
Canaan.
What half truth did Abram tell Pharaoh and his officials?
Sarai was his sister.
Double points: Why did he do this?
Where did Lot choose to move?
The plain of the Jordan.
Double points: Why?
What city did Lot live in?
Sodom.
How old was Noah when the flood began?
600 years old.
Which of Noah's sons did Abram descend from?
Shem.
How did Pharaoh find out about Abram's lie?
God inflicted a plague on Pharaoh's household.
What did God compare Abram's offspring to?
The dust of the earth.
What do we call an appearance of Jesus Christ before the New Testament?
A Christophany.
What was the purpose of a blood sacrifice?
A life is required as a penalty for wrongdoing or sin. The animals were sacrificed as an atonement for the sins of the people back then.
Double points: Why don't we offer sacrifices today?