How much do you Noah? Trivia Quiz

Answer: pious gentiles

B'nai Noach is Hebrew for children or descendants of Noah. They are also called righteous gentiles.

Answer: Right after the flood.

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Genesis 9:8-10
"And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying: 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth."

Interesting to note, this covenant is for all creatures, not just humans, and it is for all generations, not just one.

Answer: It is an everlasting covenant.

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Genesis 9:12-17
"And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.' And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.'"

The rainbow is the symbol and reminder of the Covenant of Noah.

Answer: prohibitions against stealing, blasphemy, idolatry, murder, immoral sex, eating the limb of a live animal, and the commandment to set up courts of justice.

These Seven Laws of Noah are also found contained within the Mosaic Laws, making them Universal.

According to Jewish belief, at the time that the Covenant of Noah was given to all humanity, everyone was a gentile. There were no Israelites or Jews yet. So, all of humanity was expected to keep the Seven Laws of Noah.

Later, at Mount Sinai, YHWH set aside a group of people. These people became the Israelites. They were set aside to be a 'light unto the nations', living examples.

Answer: Mosaic Laws

According to Jewish belief, righteous gentiles (those that observe the Seven Laws of Noah) have a place in the 'world to come'. The Mosaic Laws are for the Israelites and the Seven Laws of Noah are for everyone else. In this way, everyone is part of one big family following the basic laws which help lead to a civilized society.

Everyone can thus have the same belief, and the same objective. They can be like-minded individuals working and living together with the same goal.

Answer: George Herbert Walker Bush

PUBLIC LAW 102-14 (HJ Res. 104) March 20, 1991, urges the United States to "return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws."

Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, visited various countries and asked their leaders to recognize the ethical and moral values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws.

Answer: True

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Ezekeiel 14:14
"Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord YHWH."

Ezekiel 18:21-22
"But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; for his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."

Psalm 51:18-19
"For Thou delightest not in sacrifice, else would I give it; Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise."

Proverbs 24:16
"For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again, but the wicked stumble under adversity."

We are responsible for our own actions and will be forgiven if we ask with a contrite heart.

Answer: True

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Leviticus 17:10
"And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set My face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people."

Job 9:33
"There is no arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both."

According to the Tanach, we are allowed to pray directly to God and ask forgiveness for our transgressions.

Answer: Approximately one year.

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Genesis 7:11
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month,"

In the 600th year of Noah's life they entered the ark.

Genesis 8:13-16
"And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dried. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry. And God spoke unto Noah, saying: 'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee."

They were thus on the ark, for approximately one year and 10 days.

Answer: Japheth and Shem

Shem and Japheth (but not Ham) were blessed because they covered their father's naked body without looking at it.

Genesis 9:21-27