All About Exodus Headlines: Moses' Early Years Quiz

Answer: Egypt

Exodus 1:8 "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph." Exodus 1:9 "And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we." After Joseph had moved his relatives into Egypt, they multiplied. The new king of Egypt was afraid the Israelites might take over Egypt.

Answer: Pharaoh

Exodus 1:11 "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses." The Egyptians enslaved the Israelites, forcing them to build many of the structures which made Egypt famous.

Answer: Hebrew

Exodus 1:22 "And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive." The fear of the strong Israelite continued, so it was ordered that male Isrealites should be drowned.

Answer: Moses

Exodus 2:9 "And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it." While other male babies were being drowned, baby Moses was put into a small ark and sent down the river. When the princess saw the baby, she decided to raise it for her own, and hired the baby's mother to nurse it.

Answer: Egyptian

Exodus 2:11 "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens, and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren." Moses knew he was a Hebrew, and when he saw an Egyptian beating one of his relatives, he became angry and killed him. When Moses found out people knew what he had done, Moses left Egypt.

Answer: Son

Exodus 2:21 "And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter." Exodus 2:22 "And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land." ("Stranger in a Strange Land" was a science-fiction novel about a man who grew up on Mars and returned to Earth to start his own religion.) Moses moved to the land of Midian and took Zipporah for his wife.

He was beginning to have a family and thought he would stay there from then on.

Answer: Jethro

Exodus 3:1 "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb." The story of Moses is about to take a turn when Moses arrives with Jethro's flock to the mountain of God.

Answer: God

Exodus 3:16 "Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me saying, I have surely visited you and seen that which is done to you in Egypt." God ordered Moses to go to Egypt and release the Israelites. Moses was reluctant to do such a thing since he might've been punished for killing an Egyptian. God told Moses to explain that He was the same God who led Abraham in the past.

Answer: Rod

Exodus 4:2 "And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod." Exodus 4:3 "And He said, Cast it on the ground, and he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from before it." God used His power to turn the rod into a serpent which frightened Moses. God told Moses to do this in front of Pharaoh to prove that Moses represented God.

Answer: Midian

Exodus 4:19 "And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead which sought thy life." Finally, the point God made was for Moses to leave Midian and return to Egypt to tell Pharaoh to release God's people. Eventually, the plagues were let loose to convince the Egyptians to release the Israelites.