Lesson 12

Question 1

burial plot of patriarchs and their wives

Answer 1

Field of Machpelah

Question 2

embalm

Answer 2

to preserve a dead body using resins, minerals, and herbs

Question 3

a train of pack animals (camels, mules)

Answer 3

caravan

Question 4

12 sons of Jacob, father of the 12 tribes of Israel

Answer 4

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Gad, Asher, Dan, Naphthali, Joseph, Benjamin

Question 5

Genesis 50:25

Answer 5

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Question 6

When Jacob gathered his sons around him for his final blessing before he died, what did he fortell about their future?

Answer 6

He told them that the twlve tribes of Israel would descend from them, and that Judah would be the one that all the others would praise and bow before.

Question 7

the children of Israel

Answer 7

Hebrews

Question 8

fertile territory in Egypt, east of the Nile delta; granted by Pharaoh to Joseph and his descendants

Answer 8

Goshen

Question 9

Genesis 45:4,5,8

Answer 9

I am a Joseph your brother, who me he sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved with yourselves, for it was not you that sent me hither, but God.

Question 10

What did Joseph do to test his brothers to see if they had truly changed?

Answer 10

He planed his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack and sent his steward to overtake the brothers and bring them back, demanding that Benjmain be his slave for this theft.