Pentateuch Flashcards
What was Abram’s original hometown?
a) Samaria
b) Babylon
c) Ur
d) Nineveh
c) Ur
When Abram answered God’s command, “Go from your country
and your kindred . . . to the land that I will show you,” from where did he depart?
a) Machpelah
b) Shechem
c) Haran
d) Mamre
c) Haran
Which two patriarchs claim that their wives are their sisters in order to avoid conflicts with rulers they encounter?
a) Abraham and Isaac
b) Isaac and Jacob
c) Abraham and Jacob
d) Jacob and Judah
a) Abraham and Isaac
When Abram is childless, he
complains to God that his heir is
a) his nephew Lot.
b) his brother Nahor
c) his servant Eliezer
d) his father Terah
c) his servant Eliezer
Why was it that Esau hated his brother Jacob and wanted to kill him?
a) Rebekah loved Jacob more than Esau
b) Jacob had bargained for Esau’s birthright in exchange for bread and lentil stew
c) Jacob spoke about dreams he had that Esau would serve him
d) Jacob had deceived their father Isaac into blessing him before the LORD rather than Esau
d) Jacob had deceived their father Isaac into blessing him before the LORD rather than Esau
In what place does Jacob have a
dream about a ladder stretching from earth to heaven?
a) Bethel
b) Peniel
c) Beersheba
d) Shechem
a) Bethel
Concerning which of his daughters-in-law did Judah say, “She is more in the right than I”?
a) Shua
b) Dinah
c) Tamar
d) Bilhah
c) Tamar
Which of Joseph’s brothers said, “Now therefore, please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.”
a) Reuben
b) Levi
c) Judah
d) Benjamin
c) Judah
The land in Egypt that was given to
Joseph and his family was
a) Goshen
b) Luz
c) Hebron
D) Canaan
a) Goshen
Just before his death, Jacob blesses his sons and says of which one of them, “The scepter shall not depart from ______, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and the obedience of the peoples is his”?
a) Judah
b) Joseph
c) Benjamin
d) David
a) Judah
Of whom is it written, “On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the LORD met him and tried to kill him”?
a) Abraham
b) Jeremiah
c) Moses
d) Pharaoh
c) Moses
After departing from Egypt, what
wilderness does Moses lead the
Israelites into to serve the LORD, make a covenant, and receive the LORD’s instructions?
a) Canaan
b) Sinai
c) Midian
d) Sin
b) Sinai
The “Ten Commandments” are found in which two books?
a) Exodus and Deuteronomy
b) Exodus and Leviticus
c) Leviticus and Numbers
d) Numbers and Deuteronomy
a) Exodus and Deuteronomy
In the Ten Commandments, what
reason is given for the command to “honor your father and your mother”?
a) “so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”
b) “because the LORD your God will not acquit anyone who fails to honor father and mother.”
c) “so that your father and mother will be glad; she who bore you rejoice.”
d) “because anyone who curses father or mother shall be put to
death.”
a) “so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”
In the third commandment, what reason is given that the people should not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD?
a) “Because the name of the LORD is too wonderful.”
b) “The LORD will not aquit anyone who misuses his name.”
c) “Because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
d) “So that you may not profane my holy name.”
b) “The LORD will not aquit anyone who misuses his name.”
What sign did the LORD give to Moses as a perpetual covenant between the LORD and the people?
a) Torah
b) Circumcision
c) Sabbath
d) bow in the sky
c) Sabbath
The “land animals” permitted to be eaten were identified by what
characteristics?
a) They have divided hoofs.
b) They chew the cud.
c) They have divided hoofs and chew the cud.
d) That neither have divided hoofs nor chew the cud.
c) They have divided hoofs and chew the cud.
In the book of Numbers a man can determine whether his wife has been an adultress by:
a) a trial before village elders
b) drinking a poison
c) evidence presented by witnesses
d) the leading of the Holy Spirit
b) drinking a poison
When Moses tells the LORD that he can no longer bear the people alone because of their complaining, the LORD instructs him to
a) seek support from Aaron and Miriam.
b) appoint 70 elders to help bear the burden.
c) instruct the people to set up nets to catch quail.
d) tell the people that they will not be allowed to enter Canaan.
b) appoint 70 elders to help bear the burden.
The controversy between Moses and his siblings Miriam and Aaron that led them to say, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” was caused because Moses had
a) selected a council of 70 elders to assist him.
b) appointed Joshua to be his successor.
c) been transformed in his appearance by his encounter with God on Mount Sinai.
d) married a Cushite woman
d) married a Cushite woman
When Moses sent men to spy out the land of Canaan, they returned
a) after 3 days
b) after 7 days
c) after 40 days
d) after 120 days
c) after 40 days
When the spies that Moses sent into Canaan return, Caleb says,
a) “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
b) “we are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”
c) “Do not go up, for the LORD is not with you; do not let yourselves be struck down before your enemies.”
d) “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants.
a) “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
After the spies who brought a bad
report about the land die of a plague, the Israelites decide?
a) to invade the land of Canaan.
b) to wander in the wilderness for 40 years.
c) to camp near Mt. Sinai.
d) to elect new leaders.
a) to invade the land of Canaan.
Which of the following were NOT
allowed to enter “the land … which
[God] swore” to give to the Israelites?
a) Joshua
b) Caleb
c) Aaron
d) all those under the age of 20
c) Aaron
Who called for Balaam to curse the Israelites so that they would not drive his people from their land?
a) Og, king of Bashan
b) Sihon, king of the Amorites
c) Jabin, king of Canaan
d) Balak, king of Moab
d) Balak, king of Moab
In which book are the Israelites
exhorted to “remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt” when various laws are given?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Numbers
d) Deuteronomy
d) Deuteronomy
The daughters of Zelophehad
successfully pled their case for being allowed to
a) marry Moabite men.
b) inherit their father’s property.
c) join the Israelite people even though they were foreigners.
d) make a pledge without their father’s approval.
b) inherit their father’s property.
According to its opening verses,
where were the Israelites when Moses spoke the words in Deuteronomy in order to “expound this law”?
a) in Egypt, preparing for the Exodus
b) wandering in the Sinai wilderness around Mt. Horeb
c) beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab
d) in the promised land having conquered Jericho
c) beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab
“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.” This appears in which book?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Deuteronomy
d) Numbers
c) Deuteronomy
“Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home, and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates” is found in which book?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Numbers
d) Deuteronomy
d) Deuteronomy
Which book instructs the Israelites to worship specifically in “the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name”?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Numbers
d) Deuteronomy
d) Deuteronomy
In which book of the Torah is concern for the well-being of “orphans, widows, and aliens” expressed repeatedly?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Numbers
d) Deuteronomy
d) Deuteronomy
When Moses described in Deuteronomy the leader “God will raise up” for the people after his passing, what role did Moses say that leader would take?
a) prophet
b) priest
c) king
d) scribe
a) prophet
God commanded Moses to climb
which mountain in order to “view the land of Canaan” before he died?
a) Mt Sinai
b) Mt Horeb
c) Mt Nebo
d) My Hor
c) Mt Nebo
According to the book of
Deuteronomy, where did God make a covenant with Israel “in addition to the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb”?
a) Mt Nebo
b) Mt Sinai
c) the land of Moab
d) the plains of Jericho
c) the land of Moab
A central theme of which book is
expressed the verses, “If you will only obey the LORD your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the
LORD your God will set you high
above all the nations of the earth”?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Numbers
d) Deuteronomy
d) Deuteronomy
which book are the laws found for
preparing for, and engaging in, holy war?
a) Exodus
b) Leviticus
c) Numbers
d) Deuteronomy
d) Deuteronomy
