2 Exodus 1-20

Question 1

Why did Pharaoh set taskmasters over the Israelites?

Answer 1

Was concerned that they were becoming more numerous and powerful.

Question 2

What did Pharaoh order the Hebrew midwives to do?

Answer 2

Kill every boy that is born, but keep the girls.

Question 3

How did Moses come to be adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter?

Answer 3

Cast into a basket in Nile. Pharaoh’s daughter sees him while bathing. Moses’s sister offers woman to nurse the child, Moses’s mother is employed as a nurse. Child then brought to Pharaoh’s daughter.

Question 4

What is depicted here?

Answer 4

The finding of Moses, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1904

Question 5

Why does Moses flee Pharaoh?

Answer 5

Goes to see his people, sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, kills him. Pharaoh finds out wants to kill Moses.

Question 6

How does Moses meet his wife Zipporah?

Answer 6

Comes to defense of her and sisters, against shepherds, while watering father’s flock.

Question 7

Why did God help the Israelites in Egypt?

Answer 7

Because of previous covenants with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Question 8

How does god appear to Moses while he is tending flock in Horeb?

Answer 8

In a blazing bush the burnt but was not consumed

Question 9

What message does god give to Moses from blazing bush?

Answer 9

That Moses must go from Midian to Egypt and take the Israelites to land of Canaanites, the “land of milk and honey”.

Question 10

Any historical evidence for enslavement of Israelites in Egypt?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

What is depicted here?

Answer 11

Moses removing his shoes before God in the burning bush, Dieric Bouts, Leuven, 1465

Question 12

What does god say his name is from the burning bush?

Answer 12

I AM WHO I AM

Question 13

How does god promise to deliver the Israelites from Egypt?

Answer 13

By striking Egypt by many wonders, so that you can ask for any treasure from them, and thereby plunder them.

Question 14

How did Pharaoh respond to Moses’s request to let his people celebrate a festival in the wilderness?

Answer 14

Made them work harder, produce more bricks without providing straw.

Question 15

What are the 10 plagues of Egypt?

Answer 15

1 River to blood (magicians reproduce)
2 Frogs (magicians reproduce)
3 Gnats –magicians not reproduce
4 Flies –only to egyptians
5 Pestilence on flock
6 Soot from kiln into boils
7 Hail
8 Locusts
9 Darkness for 3 days
10 Kill every firstborn, human and animal

Question 16

Who is responsible for the Pharaoh’s not releasing the Israelites and why?

Answer 16

God –keeps hardening Pharaoh’s heart.

“I have hardened his heart and the heart of his officials, in order that I may show these signs of mine among them, and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I have made fools of the Egyptians.”

Question 17

What are the instructions for what to eat at the first Passover?

Answer 17

Year-old sheep or goat
Roasted whole over fire
Burn anything that remains
With unleavened bread and bitter herbs

Question 18

What are the instructions for what to wear at the first Passover?

Answer 18

Loins girded
Sandals on feet
Staff in hand
Hurriedly

Question 19

How is the Lord to know which houses to pass over?

Answer 19

Blood on lintel and both doorposts with a bunch of hyssop

Question 20

What are instructions for Passover festival?

Answer 20

First month from 14th to 21st day – unleavened bread
No work
Solemn assembly on days 1 and 7

Question 21

What are the conditions for an alien to celebrate passover?

Answer 21

All his males must be circumcised.

Question 22

How did the Lord guide the Israelites out of Egypt?

Answer 22

As a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

Question 23

What is depicted here?

Answer 23

The seventh plague of Egypt (hail), John Martin, 1823

Question 24

What is the Hebrew name for angel, and what does it mean?

Answer 24

Mal’akh, literally means “messenger.

Question 25

How did Moses purify the water in Marah?

Answer 25

The Lord showed him a piece of wood, which he threw into the water, making it sweet.

Question 26

How does the Lord feed the Israelites in the wilderness of Sin?

Answer 26

Leaving manna, which remains after the dew like frost on the ground.

Question 27

What is manna like?

Answer 27

Like coriander seed, white, and tasting like wafers made with honey.

Question 28

How did Moses find water in the desert?

Answer 28

Instructed them to strike a rock with a staff, which sprung water.

Question 29

What does the Lord promise the Israelites on Mt Sinai?

Answer 29

That if keep covenant, then will be treasured possession of all peoples.

Question 30

In what guise does the Lord appear on Mt Sinai?

Answer 30

In smoke, thunder and lightning, with blasts of a trumpet.

Question 31

What is a theophany?

Answer 31

A manifestation of God's presence.

Question 32

In ten commandments what does God promise to those who reject him?

Answer 32

Jealous God, will punish children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation.

Question 33

What are the ten commandments?

Answer 33

1 No other gods before God 2 Not make an idol 3 Not make wrongful use of name of Lord 4 Remember Sabbath 5 Honour father and mother 6 Not murder 7 Not commit adultery 8 Not steal 9 Not bear false witness against neighbour 10 Not covet neighbour's wife, slave, ox, etc.

Question 34

What's this?

Answer 34

An awl

Question 35

What is the punishment for cursing your father or mother?

Answer 35

Put to death

Question 36

What was key difference in treatment of Hebrew and non-Hebrew slaves?

Answer 36

Hebrew slaves labour for 6 years and are set free in 7th. Foreign slaves generally kept for life.

Question 37

What is a sabbatical year in the Pentateuch?

Answer 37

Seventh year in which you let fields and vineyards lie fallow. This allows poor to access food.

Question 38

What borders are promised to the Israelites?

Answer 38

From Red Sea to Sea of Philistines, from Wilderness to Euphrates.

Question 39

What does God say will happen to the inhabitants of Canaan?

Answer 39

They will be driven out little by little. God will hand them over to you and you shall drive them out before you.

Question 40

What is a burnt offering in the Old Testament? What did it involve?

Answer 40

A sacrifice in which an animal is completely burnt. Animal had to be male without defect. Slaughter animal, sprinkle blood around altar, cut into pieces and burn .