Lectionary Study Guide - Ex - Deut

Question 1

Exodus 1:8-2:10
Do readers learn the name of Pharaoh? How does Moses end up in Pharaoh’s house?

Answer 1

No, you don’t learn Pharaoh’s name.
Mom put Moses in a basket, into the Nile, to avoid state ordered infanticide. Pharaoh’s daughter finds him and raises him.

Question 2

Exodus 3:1-15
What has God observed/seen/heard?

Answer 2

Observed the misery of God’s people
Heard their cries on account of their task masters
Seen how Egypt oppresses them

Question 3

Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14
On whom does God say God will impose/execute judgments?

Answer 3

On all of the gods of Egypt (firstborn children and animals will die though)

Question 4

Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21
Know Exod 14:14, which serves as a summary of the OT’s theology of warfare.

Answer 4

The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.

Question 5

Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21
What is God called in 15:3?

Answer 5

The LORD is a warrior

Question 6

Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15
How does God initially respond to the people’s complaining for food?

Answer 6

At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread

Question 7

Exodus 17:1-7
How does God initially respond to the people’s complaining for water?

Answer 7

Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink

Question 8

Exodus 19:2-8a
How does God characterize the people here at Mount Sinai?

Answer 8

you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation

Question 9

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
Be able to identify the Ten Commandments.

Answer 9

1) You shall have no other gods before me
2) You shall not make for yourself an idol
3) You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God
4) Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy
5) Honor your father and your mother
6) You shall not murder
7) You shall not commit adultery
8) You shall not steal
9) You shall not bear false witness
10) You shall not covet your neighbor’s house

Question 10

Exodus 24:12-18
How is God’s glory described?

Answer 10

the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel

Question 11

Exodus 32:1-14
What does Moses get God to do?

Answer 11

LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people

Question 12

Exodus 33:12-23
What parts of God does Moses see? Why?

Answer 12

and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen

Question 13

Exodus 34:29-35
How was Moses changed after talking with God?

Answer 13

the skin of his face was shining

Question 14

Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18
Understand the practice of gleaning as described in 19:9-10.

Answer 14

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien

Question 15

Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
What comes immediately before the command to love your neighbor as yourself?

Answer 15

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people

Question 16

Numbers 6:22-27
Know the content of this priestly benediction.

Answer 16

The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
the LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
So they shall put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.

Question 17

Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
Know that God helps Moses with his complaint, but punishes the people for theirs–because they reject God’s salvation and even God (11:20)

Answer 17

but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?

Question 18

Numbers 21:4-9
Know the problem and its solution (which was a common one in the ancient world).

Answer 18

People complain, God sends poisonous serpents, people pray for deliverance, God tells Moses to make a serpent idol, and that whenever anyone is bitten, they can look upon it and live (Idol Building)

Question 19

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9
Obeying God’s commands will show what to other peoples (4:6)?

Answer 19

this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who will say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!”

Question 20

Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Exod 20 tells people to obey the Sabbath because of creation. What reason is given here?

Answer 20

To rest

Because God commanded it

Question 21

Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Know the content of 6:4-5.

Answer 21

Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Question 22

Deuteronomy 8:7-18
How should Israelites think of how they got their power and wealth?

Answer 22

But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

Question 23

Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28
Where should God’s words go?

Answer 23

You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul

you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your forehead

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise

Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates

Question 24

Deuteronomy 18:15-20
According to 18:18, what does a prophet do?

Answer 24

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the moth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

Question 25

Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Should presenting the firstfruits be a solemn or celebratory occasion?

Answer 25

You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house.

Both?

Question 26

Deuteronomy 30:9-14
Does Deuteronomy present its laws as something the people can obey?

Answer 26

Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you

Question 27

Deuteronomy 30:15-20
What are six things God sets before the people (30:15, 19)?

Answer 27

Life, prosperity, death, adversity, blessings, curses

Question 28

Deuteronomy 34:1-12
How is Moses described in 34:10?

Answer 28

Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.