Uncle Al's Bible Trivia - Genesis #1 Quiz

Answer: Cher'u-bim and a flaming sword

In Genesis 3:24, the Bible states: "...and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cher'u-bims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Now that man had fallen from their previously sinless state, God could not allow Adam and Eve to further compound their sin by eating from the tree of life, which would have caused them to live forever, but separated from God.

Answer: Ma-ha-na'im

In Genesis 32:2, the word Jacob used translates to two camps or double-camp. The reason was that Jacob's entourage and the Lord's host of angels stayed in the same spot.

Answer: Two years

In Genesis 41:1, the Bible says: "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed..." Verse 9 states: "Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:" The butler then went on to describe Joseph's ability to interpret his dream while in prison.

Answer: Eliezer of Damascus

God had already promised the land of Canaan to Abram's seed, and told him that his seed would be numerous. At his advanced age, the prospects of fathering children without divine intervention were doubtful. If God had intended Abram to adopt, he would have told him so.

Answer: 600

In Genesis 7:6, the Bible states: "And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth."

Answer: The dust of the earth

God promised that his descendants would be numerous, though he and his wife were of advanced age. Genesis 13:16 states: "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." Quite prodigious, considering Abram and Sarai were well into their eighties by this time and without any children.

Answer: Simeon

Genesis 42:24 - "And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes." Joseph wouldn't be fully satisfied that his brothers had changed over the years until he saw Benjamin with his own eyes -- and he wanted to see his mother's son Benjamin.

Answer: 127

Genesis 23:1 - "And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah."

Answer: God renamed him Israel

In Genesis 35:10, God renamed Jacob Israel, which roughly translates to "He fights or wrestles with God" -- most likely referring the night he wrestled all night with an angel or perhaps with God himself, just prior to his reconciliation with Esau in Chapter 32.

Answer: 7

Genesis chapter 5 gives the genealogy from Adam to Noah. These are the men listed there who lived to be 900 or greater: Adam (930), Seth (912), Enos (905), Cainan (910), Jared (962), Methuselah (969), and Noah (950). One of the sadder verses in the Bible for me is Genesis 5:27, which reads: "And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: AND HE DIED." The grandfather of Noah lived nearly a millennium, and his listed accomplishments were that he fathered sons and daughters and died.