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1. Let's start "in the beginning." In Genesis, Chapter 3, Eve is tempted by the serpent to eat of the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Then she shares the tree's fruit with her husband Adam. Genesis states, "Then the eyes of both of them were opened." With the new knowledge bestowed on them from this fruit, what sin do they first believe they have committed?
2. After forty days of rain, Noah sent forth a raven to retrieve evidence that the flood had receded; however, the raven never returned. Then Noah elected to use a dove. On the dove's second trip, it returned with the branch of what fruit tree?
3. The Hebrews that Moses had delivered from Egyptian enslavement were always complaining as they trekked across the desert. At one point, they were griping about the lack of food. Numbers 11:5 informs its readers that the Israelites actually began wishing they were back in Egypt where they had fish, cucumbers, leeks, onions, garlic, and which fleshy, watery fruits of the cucumis genus?
4. At the end of Deuteronomy, Moses sings a song! At one point (32:10, to be exact), Moses sings the earliest recorded mentioning of a popular expression. What popular expression am I talking about?
5. In II Samuel, David has to flee from the insurrection led by his own disloyal son Absalom. While seeking refuge at the top of the Mount of Olives (another fruit reference), David is visited by Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, the son of David's best friend Jonathan. Among the nourishment Ziba brings David are "one hundred clusters of" what particular dried fruit?
6. In what book of the Bible would one find the following romantic verse: "Your lips are like a strand of scarlet, / And your mouth is lovely. / Your temples behind your veil / Are like a piece of pomegranate"?
7. In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, their writers record a parable told by Christ that relies on a certain fruit tree. Matthew 24:32 states: "When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near." What fruit tree does Christ use to explain that his followers should be constantly vigilant for the signs of his second coming?
8. In what book of the Bible would one find a verse like this: "And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, 'Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe'"?
9. In Galatians 5:22-23, Paul lists what he calls "the fruit of the spirit." Which of these is NOT included among those "fruits"?
10. In Matthew 7:16-17, Jesus explains: "You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit." Jesus used this analogy to help his followers know how to tell the difference between which two kinds of people?
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