Exodus Trivia

EXODUS TRIVIA

1) Whose bones did Moses take with him when the Israelites left Egypt?

EXODUS 13:19: Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place."

2) What did the midwives Shiprah and Puah tell the king of Egypt when he asked why they weren't killing male Hebrew babies as he had instructed?

NO MALE BABIES HAD BEEN BORN GOD TOLD THEM NOT TO DO IT HEBREW WOMEN GIVE BIRTH BEFORE THE MIDWIVES ARRIVE THEY FORGOT

EXODUS 1:19: The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."

3) When Moses killed the Egyptian for beating a Hebrew worker, where did he hide the body?

HE BURNED IT IN THE SAND IN THE NILE IN PHARAOH'S PALACE

EXODUS 2:12: Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

4) What was the punishment for working on the Sabbath?

DEATH FASTING 7 YEARS HARD LABOR EXILE

EXODUS 31:15: For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

5) When his mother put Moses in a basket in the Nile, who watched to see what would happen to him?

HIS BROTHER HIS MOTHER HIS SISTER HIS FATHER

His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

6) Why was God going to kill Moses on his way back to Egypt?

BECAUSE HE'D MARRIED A MIDIANITE BECAUSE HE HADN'T CIRCUMCISED HIS SONS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE GOD'S MESSENGER BECAUSE HE'D MURDERED AN EGYPTIAN

EXODUS 4:24-26: ²⁴ At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. ²⁵ But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said. ²⁶ So the Lord let him alone.

7) When God appeared in the burning bush, what disease did he inflict on Moses?

BOILS LEPROSY BLINDNESS HE DIDN'T GIVE HIM ANY DISEASE

EXODUS 4:6-7: ⁶ Then the Lord said, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous--it had become as white as snow. ⁷ "Now put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

8) Which wind brought the plague of locusts to Egypt?

EAST WIND WEST WIND SOUTH WIND NORTH WIND

EXODUS 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts.

9) What did manna taste like?

BISCUITS & GRAVY OLIVE OIL CRACKERS CHICKEN & MUSHROOMS HONEY WAFERS

EXODUS 16:31: The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

10) Which of the following was NOT an ingredient in the sacred oil used to anoint the tent of meeting and the Ark of the Covenant?

MYRRH CINNAMON CALAMUS FRANKINCENSE

EXODUS 30:22-25: ²² Then the Lord said to Moses, ²³ "Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant calamus, ²⁴ 500 shekels of cassia--all according to the sanctuary shekel--and a hin of olive oil. ²⁵ Make these into a sacred anointing oil.