The First Patriarch and Matriarch
Abram's nephew traveled with him from Haran to the land of Canaan.
Who is Lot?
Jacob obtained Esau's birthright by offering him this food.
What is red soup (or porridge)?
This is the tenth and final plague on Egypt.
What is the death of the firstborn?
Leviticus holds this numbered position among the five books of the Torah.
What is third?
The Fertile Crescent is framed by these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
In Gen 17, God changes Abram's name to this, meaning "father of a multitude of nations."
What is Abraham?
Through his four wives, Jacob initially ended up with this many sons.
What is twelve?
Moses receives the tablets of the covenant on this mountain.
What is Mount Sinai?
Uzzah died when he reached out to steady this sacred object as the oxen stumbled (2 Sam 6).
What is Azazel?
In 1947, Bedouin shepherds found the first scrolls in a cave near Khirbet Qumran, near this body of water.
What is the Dead Sea?
This physical sign of the covenant was commanded for every male, including those eight days old.
What is circumcision?
After wrestling, Jacob is renamed this, which is explained as "you have striven with God and man."
What is (Y)Israel?
This sixth king of Babylon (1792-1750 BCE) is pictured on a stela receiving his law code from the god Shamash.
Who is Hammurabi?
On the Day of Atonement, Aaron casts lots over two goats: one for the LORD and one for this.
What is Azazel?
Unlike the Elohist source, the J source uses this Hebrew four-letter name for God from the start.
What is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH)?
Before God promised a son, Abram named this servant from Damascus as the heir of his house.
Who is Eliezer?
Jacob's family settled in this region of Egypt with Pharaoh's help.
What is Goshen?
In Exod 4:24-26, this wife of Moses circumcises their son with a flint and calls Moses a "bridegroom of blood."
Who is Zipporah?
After seven sabbatical cycles, or 49 years, the fiftieth year is proclaimed as this, Hebrew yovel.
What is the Jubilee?
The Ta'anach stand is associated with this goddess, consort of the Canaanite god El.
Who is Asherah?
The wife-sister narrative appears with Abraham in Gen 12 and Gen 20, and with this patriarch in Gen 26.
Who is Isaac?
Jacob, Joseph, and this later king (after the Pentateuch) illustrate the theme of a younger sibling usurping the older.
Who is David?
Exod 34:28 is the first place the Bible uses this Hebrew term, translated "the ten commandments."
What is hadevarim (the words/matters)?
Of the sacrifices in Leviticus, this named "peace offering" (translated from Hebrew) is the one mostly eaten by humans.
What is the shelamim?
Scholars often associate the Deuteronomist with the book King Josiah found in this year BCE (2 Kings 22).
What is 622 BCE?