Chp 1-3
What tree was Adam supposed to not eat from?
Tree of knowledge of good and evil (2:17)
Who was the firstborn of Adam and Eve?
Cain (4:1)
What did God do to the people at the Tower of Babel?
Confused their languages (11:7)
Where did Abram go to live because of a famine in the land?
Egypt (12:10)
Who was Abram's wife?
Sarai (16:1)
How many angels came to Sodom?
Two (19:1)
Who did Abraham try to sacrifice before God stopped him?
Isaac (22:12)
What did Esau give Jacob to buy his bread and lentil stew?
Birthright (25:33-34)
What did Isaac tell Esau to do before he would bless him?
Go hunt and prepare delicious food (27:3-4)
Who could not have a child with Jacob so she gave her servant to him to have a child?
Rachel (30:1)
Who was Jacob's daughter?
Dinah (34:1)
Isaac's sons buried him. What were their names?
Jacob & Esau (35:29)
Besides death, what was the punishment for eating of the tree (100pts for each man & woman)?
Woman: more pain in childbearing (3:16)
Man: thorns and thistles in the fields he will work (3:17-19)
How old was Methuselah when he died?
969 (5:27)
Names the sons of Noah
Shem, Ham, Japheth (10:1)
How many men did Abram rally up to rescue his nephew Lot?
318 (14:14)
What did Sarah do when she was told she would have a child?
Laughed (18:12-15)
How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?
100 (21:5)
What did God provide Abraham instead for the sacrifice?
A ram (22:13)
Who buried Abraham? (100pts each)
Isaac & Ishmael (25:9)
Jacob dreamed, "and behold, there was a ______ set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!"
Ladder (28:12)
What did Jacob use to build a pillar for a covenent?
Stones (31:44-45)
What did the sons of Jacob do to Shechem and all the males in his family?
Killed them (34:25-26)
True or False: the Edomites are through the family line of Esau
True (36:9)
What was made on the 5th day?
Fish & Fowl (1:20-23)
Adam fathered a son in his own likeness. Which son was it? (bonus 100 points: how old was Adam when he had him?)
Seth / 130yrs old (5:3)
150 days (8:3)
God tells Abram that he will have many offspring. He compared it to what?
Dust of the earth (13:16)
Also called stars of heaven & sand on the seashore (22:17)
How old was Sarai when she had her child?
90 (17:17)
Who did Sarah want Abraham to cast out?
Hagar & Ishmael (21:9-10)
Who did Isaac take as his wife?
Rebekah (24:67)
When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my ______,”
Sister (26:7)
Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you _____ years for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” So Jacob served _____ years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Seven (29:18-20)
Jacob paid Laban with what kind of animal? (100 bonus points: what was unique about the look of these animals?)
Sheep / Goats (30:31-35)
How many times did Jacob bow down to Esau?
Seven (33:3)
True or False: Esau's three wives were Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah.
False. Those were Abraham's wives. Esau's wives were Adah, Oholibamah, and Basemath (36:2-3)
What day did God create the Seas (bonus pts. what also was made)?
3rd day / vegetation (1:9)
How many of each clean and unclean animals was Noah supposed to take on the ark? (200 points each)
Unclean: 1 pair
Clean: 7 pairs (7:2)
Which descendant’s line got cursed?
Ham (Gen 9:22-25)
Between which two rivers did God give Abram's offspring? (200pts each)
River of Egypt to the great river, Euphrates (15:18)
Abraham pleaded to God to not destroy Sodom. How many people did he initially make a deal with to try to find and what number did get down to? (200pts each)
50 (18:24) / 10 (18:32)
What were names of the sons born by Lot's daughters? (200pt each)
Moab (Moabites) & Ben-ammi (Ammonites)
19:37-38
How much did Abraham pay to bury Sarah?
400 shekels (23:15)
Which wife of Abraham bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah?
Keturah (25:1-2)
Isaac said, “You must not take a wife from the _________ women"
Canaanite (28:6)
What is the name of Rachel's servant given to Jacob to have a child?
Bilhah (30:3)
How many men went with Esau to Jacob?
400 (32:6)
What was the child Rachel bore before she died?
Benjamin (35:18)
What were the name of the four rivers that flowed out of Eden? (100pts each - bonus 100 if you get ALL of them)
Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates (2:10-14)
What was the size of Noah's ark in cubits (length / width / height)?
Bonus 100pts: how many decks did it have?
300 cubits long / 50 cubits wide / 30 cubits high / 3 decks (6:15-16)
How long did Noah live after the flood (100 bonus points: what was his total age)?
350 / 950 (9:28)
What percentage of possessions did Abram give Melchizedek?
10% (14:20)
How old was Abram when Ishmael was born?
86 (16:16)
What kind of tree did Abraham plant in Beersheba?
Tamarisk (21:33)
How old was Sarah when she died?
127 (23:1)
When Esau was ___ years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite
40 (26:34)
Who does Rebekah tell Jacob to flee from Esau. Who does she tell him to go to?
Her brother Laban in Haran (27:43)
How did Rachel hide the idols of Laban?
She sat on them (31:34-35)
Which two sons of Jacob got revenge against Shechem and his family for what they did to Dinah?
Simeon, Levi (34:25)
Jacob buried the idols from within his household. What did he bury them under? (100 bonus points: what kind?)
Terebinth Tree, also referred to as an Oak Tree in the NIV (35:4)