Genesis
What event marks the beginning of everything, where God created the heavens and the earth?
✅ Creation
📖 Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
What event involved God appearing to Moses in a bush that was on fire but not consumed?
✅ The Burning Bush
📖 Exodus 3:2
"There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. "
What system of offerings did God establish for atonement and worship?
✅ Sacrificial system
📖 Leviticus 1:3–4
“ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the Lord. You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you. "
What event at the beginning of the book involved counting Israel’s fighting men?
✅ The Census
📖 Numbers 1:2–3
“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army."
What is the name of the command that begins, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one”?
✅ The Shema
📖 Deuteronomy 6:4-5
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."
Shema = Hear in Hebrew
What event caused sin to enter the world through Adam and Eve’s disobedience?
✅ The Fall (eating from the forbidden tree)
📖 Genesis 3:6
"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it."
What series of events did God send upon Egypt to force Pharaoh to release Israel?
✅ The Ten Plagues
📖 Exodus 7–12
What key theme is repeated, calling God’s people to reflect His nature?
✅ Holiness (“Be holy”)
📖 Leviticus 11:44
"I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy..."
What event caused Israel to be sentenced to wander 40 years in the wilderness?
✅ Refusal to enter the Promised Land after the spies’ report
📖 Numbers 14:33–34
"Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’ "
What was Moses doing throughout most of this book before Israel entered the Promised Land?
✅ Giving final speeches / reviewing the Law
📖 Deuteronomy 1:3
"In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them."
What major judgment event did God send to cleanse the earth because of human wickedness?
✅ The Flood (Noah’s Ark)
📖 Genesis 6:5–7
"The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” "
What event did God perform to allow Israel to escape Egypt by crossing on dry ground?
✅ Parting of the Red Sea
📖 Exodus 14:21–22
"Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. "
What annual event involved the high priest making atonement for the sins of Israel?
✅ Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
📖 Leviticus 16:30
"because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins."
What rebellion resulted in the earth swallowing those who opposed Moses?
✅ Korah’s rebellion
📖 Numbers 16:31–33
"As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions. They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community."
What choice did Moses present to Israel between obedience and disobedience?
✅ Blessings and curses
📖 Deuteronomy 28:1–2,15
"If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God...However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:"
What covenant did God make with Abraham, promising descendants as numerous as the stars?
✅ Abrahamic Covenant
📖 Genesis 15:5–6
"He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring. Or seed be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness."
What event established God’s covenant law with Israel on Mount Sinai?
✅ Giving of the Ten Commandments
📖 Exodus 20:1–17
What group was set apart to serve as priests before the LORD?
✅ Aaron and his sons (the priesthood)
📖 Leviticus 8:1–2
"The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast,"
What object did Moses lift up so that those bitten by snakes could be healed?
✅ Bronze serpent
📖 Numbers 21:8–9
"The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived."
What command did God emphasize as the greatest, involving heart, soul, and strength?
✅ Love the LORD your God
📖 Deuteronomy 6:5
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."
What event led Joseph from slavery to leadership in Egypt, saving many lives?
✅ Joseph interpreting dreams and rising to power
📖 Genesis 41:39–41
"Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.” So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.” "
What sacred structure did God command Israel to build so His presence could dwell among them?
✅ The Tabernacle
📖 Exodus 25:8-9
“Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you."
What happened to Nadab and Abihu when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD?
✅ They were consumed by fire
📖 Leviticus 10:1–2
"Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord."
What unusual event involved a prophet being rebuked by a talking animal?
✅ Balaam and his donkey
📖 Numbers 22:28
"Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”
Why did the Israelites have to carefully follow every command given to them?
✅To live and increase and enter the Promised Land
📖 Deuteronomy 8:1
"Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors."