Exodus- Questions & Answers

EXODUS questions/Answers

Questions over Exodus 1 and 2

1. Where is Exodus found in the Bible?
   Ans. It is the 2nd book in the Old Testament

2. Who is the human author of Exodus?
   Ans. Moses

3. Who is Moses?
   Ans. Moses is an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Levi.

4. When did Moses write Exodus?
   Ans. During the 40 years between his leading the Israelite out of slavery in Egypt and their entry into Canaan.

5. What other books of the Old Testament did Moses write during this time?
   Ans. Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

6. What kind of book is Exodus?
   Ans. It is an historical account of the early years of Israel as a nation.

7. How did the Israelites come to be in Egypt?
   Ans. Their ancestors, Jacob and his sons, moved their families to Egypt during a great famine in the entire part of the world.

8. Why was there food in Egypt?
   Ans. Years before, Joseph, one of Jacob's sons, had been taken to Egypt after his jealous brother sold him into slavery. But God was with Joseph and revealed to him the proper interpretation of the Pharaoh's dream concerning the coming of the great famine. Because of this, the Pharaoh made Joseph second only to himself and placed Joseph in charge of storing up food before the years of famine arrived.

9. Where do we find the story of Joseph?
   Ans. In Genesis

10. Where in Egypt did the Israelites live?
   Ans. In Goshen, the most fertile part of Egypt

11. Why were they allowed to live there?
   Ans. Joseph, their brother had saved Egypt and all of that part of the work from starvation. The Pharaoh was grateful.

12. How long did the Israelites live in Egypt?
   Ans. About 43 years.

13. Why were the Israelites slaves in Egypt?
   Ans. The Pharaoh who came to the throne of Egypt did not know about Joseph. He saw the Israelites as a settlement of possibly dangerous foreigners. Enslaving the Israelites was his solution to the problem.

14. Did the enslavement solve Pharaoh's problem?
   Ans. No, God continued to bless the Israelites and they became more and more numerous.

15. What effect did God's causing the Israelites to become more and more numerous have on Pharaoh and the Egyptians?
   Ans. They were in dread of the Israelites.

16. What was the second thing the Egyptians did to try to reduce the number of Israelites?
   Ans. They made the Israelites' lives very bitter with extremely hard labor, making bricks of mud and straw and building cites with them.

17. What was the Pharaoh's third move against the Israelites?
   Ans. He ordered the midwives who helped deliver newborn babies to kill the newborn baby boys of the Israelites but allow the newborn baby girls to live.

18. Did Pharaoh's third move against the Israelites achieve his solution?
   Ans. No, because the midwives feared God and disobeyed the Pharaoh's command.

19. How did the midwives escape punishment?
   Ans. They told the Pharaoh that the Israelite women gave birth before they could get there.

20. What happened to the midwives?
   Ans. Because they feared God, God was good to them and gave them families of their own.

21. What was Pharaoh's 4th move against the Israelites?
   Ans. Pharaoh ordered that all the newborn baby boys were to be thrown into the river Nile.

22. When Moses' mother gave birth to him, how did she save his life?
   Ans. She hid Moses until he was three month old, then she placed him in covered and tar coated basket and set the basket afloat on the Nile in the reeds.

23. Did Moses' mother just abandon the baby?
   Ans. No, she sent her daughter, Mariam, to watch the basket from a distance as it floated to see what would happen to Moses.

24. What happened to baby Moses?
   Ans. The daughter of the Pharaoh went down to the Nile to take a bath and discovered the basket with the baby inside.

25. What was the princess' reaction to the baby?
   Ans. She decided to adopt the baby and raise him as her own.

26. Who named Moses?
   Ans. The princess.

27. Why did she say she named him Moses?
   Ans. Because she drew him from the water.

28. What tribe was Moses from?
   Ans. Levi

29. Who were Moses' brother and sister?
   Ans. Aaron and Mariam.

30. Who was the eldest?
   Ans. Mariam

31. How much older was Aaron than Moses?
   Ans. 3 years.

32. When Mariam saw that the princess had decided to adopt her baby brother, what did she offer to do?
   Ans. Bring a Hebrew nursing mother for the baby.

33. Who did she bring to care for Moses?
   Ans. Moses' own mother.

34. Where do we read about the extent of Moses' education?
   Ans. In the New Testament book of Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 7.

35. What was the extent of Moses' education?
   Ans. He was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians and he was a man of power in words and deeds.

36. From the book of Acts of the Apostles we also lean how old Moses was when he fled Egypt. How old was he?
   Ans. About 40 years old.

37. Why did Moses flee Egypt?
   Ans. Because Pharaoh had found out the he had killed an Egyptian. Pharaoh then tried to kill Moses.

38. Why did he kill the Egyptians?
   Ans. Because he saw the Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave.

39. How had he tried to cover up his deed?
   Ans. He buried the Egyptians in the sand.

40. What happened the next day?
   Ans. He tried to break up a fight between 2 Hebrew slaves.

41. What did one of the fighting Hebrew slaves say to Moses?
   Ans. Who made you a ruler and a judge over us. Are you going to kill me as you did the Egyptian?

42. Where did Moses go?
   Ans. To the land of the Midianites.

43. Who were the Midianites?
   Ans. The descendants of Midian, a son of Abraham's by his wife Keturah. Abraham married this woman after Sarah died.

44. What family did Moses join?
   Ans. The family of the priest of Midian, Reuel, a.k.a. Jethro.

45. How many daughters did Jethro have?
   Ans. 7

46. How did Moses meet this family?
   Ans. The daughters were trying to water their flock at the well where Moses was resting. Moses helped the girls when other shepherds tried to drive off the girl's flock from the watering trough.

47. Which daughter did Moses marry?
   Ans. Zipporah

48. What was the name of Moses' and Zipporah's first son?
   Ans. Gershom

49. Greshom is a name that comes form Hebrew word of stranger on alien. Why did Moses say that he named his son Gershom?
   Ans. "I have been a stranger in a strange land."

50. How many years go by while Moses is living in Midian?
   Ans. 40 years

51. Meanwhile, what were the Israelites doing back in Egypt?
   Ans. Crying out to God because of their terrible suffering as slaves.

52. Who heard their prayer and their groaning and took notice of their plight?
   Ans. God

53. What mountain was near the wilderness where Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro?
   Ans. Horeb, the mountain of God.

Questions over Exodus Chapters 3 and 4

54. What is the name of the wilderness where Mt. Horeb is?
   Ans. Sinai.

55. Is this Sinai wilderness on the Sinai Peninsula?
   Ans. Maybe not. Some think it may be in Arabia.

56. Who appeared to Moses at Mt. Horeb?
   Ans. The Angle of the LORD.

57. How did the Angle of the LORD appear to Moses?
   Ans. In a bush that was on fire but did not burn up.

58. When Moses turned aside to see this marvel, what did he hear?
   Ans. God's voice calling "Moses, Moses"

59. Who did the Angle of the LORD say he was?
   Ans. "I AM the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

60. What did God tell Moses to do immediately?
   Ans. "Do not come near here! Take off your sandals, for the ground upon which you are standing is holy ground."

61. Why did God say that HE had "come down"?
   Ans. To deliver the Israelites from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them into the Promised Land.

62. What did God want Moses to do?
   Ans. Go to the Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

63. Did Moses want this assignment
   Ans. No

64. What was Moses' forest objection?
   Ans. He (Moses) was a nobody.

65. What was God's answer to Moses' first objection?
   Ans. "I will be with you. And you shall bring the people to this mountain."

66. What was Moses' second objection?
   Ans. " The people will not believe that God has sent me, I do not even know your name."

67. What was God's answer to Moses' second objection?
   Ans. "My name is I AM." Tell the elders that "I AM" was concerned about them and that them and that the God of their father has sent you to bring them to a land flowing with mil and honey.

68. When the elders believed that God has sent Moses, what were they supposed to do?
   Ans. They were supposed to go with Moses and Aaron to see Pharaoh.

69. What were they to ask of Pharaoh?
   Ans. The Pharaoh allows them to go a three-day journey into the wilderness, (outside of Egypt) in order to sacrifice to the LORD. (Notice, they were not to say they would only be gone 3 days. It would take 3 days to get the worship place.

70. What was Moses' third objection?
   Ans. What if the people still won't believe me?

71. What was God's answer to Moses' third objection?
   Ans. He gave Moses 3 miraculous signs to perform as proof.

72. What were the signs?
   Ans. (1) Moses' staff would become a serpent when he threw it on the ground, and become a staff again when he picked it up by the tail. (2) Moses' hand would become leprous when it put it into his bosom and took it out again, and become whole again when he put it back in and took it back out. (3) When Moses pours water from the Nile upon the ground, the water will become blood.

73. What was Moses' fourth objection?
   Ans. Moses claimed that he was not an eloquent speaker.

74. What was God's answer to Moses'' fourth objection?
   Ans. God made man's mouth. "Go, I will be with your mouth."

75. What was Moses' answer to all Gods' solutions?
   Ans. "please send someone else"

76. What was God's reaction to this refusal?
   Ans. He was angry with Moses. Moreover God would send Moses' brother Aaron with Moses to speak for Moses.

77. Where was Aaron at the moment?
   Ans. Coming to meet Moses.

78. What instrument did God say Moses must use to perform the miraculous signs?
   Ans. His staff

79. Moses then asked someone for permission to go to Egypt to visit his relatives. Who did he ask?
   Ans. His father -in-law, Jethro.

80. When Moses set out to return to Egypt who did e take with him?
   Ans. His wife, Zipporah, and his two sons, Geshom and Eleazar.

81. What encouraging news did God give to Moses about the old Pharaoh?
   Ans. The men who were trying to kill Moses had died.

82. What information did God give a Moses about the new Pharaoh?
   Ans. He would harden his heart and not want to let the people go.

83. What sign did God say would finally convince Pharaoh?
   Ans. The death of the first-born son of Pharaoh.

84. Why did Zipporah take the children and return to her father?
   Ans. We are not told, perhaps she was upset that she had to circumcise her son.

85. Why was it necessary for Moses' son to be circumcised?
   Ans. It was the sign of God's covenant with the Israelites. To be included in the covenant, male Israelite had to be circumcised.

86. What would happen to an Israelite male if he were not circumcised?
   Ans. He would be cut off from his people. He could not serve God in their special way.

87. If Zipporah refused to allow her son to be circumcised, to what other person in the book of Exodus might we compare her? Why?
   Ans. Pharaoh, because he refused to allow the Israelites to leave Egypt to order to worship and serve God.

88. Who did God say Israelites were for Him?
   Ans. His First Born Son.

89. What did God Say would happen to Pharaoh's first-born son if Pharaoh refused to allow God's First Born son, the Israelites, to leave Egypt?
   Ans. God would kill him.

90. How could Pharaoh have saved the life of his son?
   Ans. By obeying God and letting the Israelites go.

91. How did Zipporah save the life of her son?
   Ans. By obeying God and circumcising her son so that he could serve God as an Israelite.

92. How do we know that Zipporah and the children didn't go to Egypt?
   Ans. Later, after Moses brought the Israelites to Mt. Horeb, Jethro brought her and the children and retune them to Moses.

93. When Moses set out to go to Egypt, Aaron was already coming to meet him. Where did Aaron meet Moses?
   Ans. At Mt. Horeb

94. What did Moses tell Aaron when he first met him at Mt. Horeb?
   Ans. All that God had told Moses.

95. When Moses and Aaron got back to Egypt, what was the reaction of the elders of Israel to the message and the sign?
   Ans. They believe and worshipped God.

QUESTIONS OVER EXODUS CHAPTERS 5-11

96. When Moses, Aaron and the elders asked Pharaoh to let the people go to worship God in the desert, did Pharaoh agree?
   Ans. No, he accused them of being lazy and made them make bricks without first supplying them with straw.

97. How did the Israelites respond to this catastrophe?
   Ans. They blamed Moses and were despondent.

98. What did God do?
   Ans. He brought plagues upon the Egyptians, but not upon the Israelites.

99. Name the first 5 plagues.
   Ans. 1. God caused the waters of the Nile and the springs to turn to blood.
          2. A swarm of frogs.
          3.The dust of the earth became gnats.
          4. Swarms of insects.
          5. A pestilence on the cattle of the Egyptians.

100. How did Pharaoh respond to these plagues?
   Ans. He ignored the bloody waters because the magicians could seem to turn water into blood also. The magicians could do the same with the frogs. But evidently they could not get rid of the frogs, so Pharaoh agreed to let the people go. However when God caused the frogs to die, Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to let the Israelites go. Pharaoh did not respond to the gnats even when the magicians told him that this plague was the finger of God. After the plague of insects Pharaoh agreed to let the people go but changed his mind again when the insects were taken away. Pharaoh did not let the people go after the pestilence on the cattle. So he basically ignored 1,3, and 5.

101. Name the next 4 plagues.
   Ans. 6. Moses threw soot into the sky and the settling dust caused boils to break out all the Egyptians.
          7.Hail destroyed the cattle in the field, the trees and plants of the Egyptians, but not of the Israelites.
          8. Locusts came and destroyed what was left of the crops and trees. Nothing green was left.
          9. Darkness covered the land for 3 days, except in the land of Goshen.

102. How did Pharaoh respond to these plagues?
   Ans. Although the magicians could not even stand up because of the boils, Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not let the people go. After the hail Pharaoh agreed, but changed his mind when God stopped the hail. When Moses threatened to bring locusts, Pharaoh started to agree, but changed his mind when he learned Moses planed to take all the people not just the men. When the locusts came, Pharaoh asked for forgiveness but when the locusts were taken away, his heart again was hardened. After the 3 days of darkness Pharaoh found out they would take the flocks too, he again refused to let them go. So to plague 6 he did not respond; to plague 7 he agreed but changed his mind, to plagues 8 and 9 he started to agree but them changed his mind.

Summary of the first 9 Plagues:

No positive response-4:
Agreed but ten refused-3:
Started to agree but then refused-2

     1. Water to blood: no positive response. - Death to fish
     2. Frogs: agreed but refused. - Death to frogs
     3. Gnats: no positive response. - Finger of God
     4. Insects: agreed, but then refused. - Not One Remained
     5. Pestilence on cattle: No positive response. - Death to cattle
     6. Boils: no positive response. - Magicians nullified
     7. Ahil:Agreed, but then refused. - Death to plants
     8. Locusts: Started to agree, but then refused. - Not one Remained
     9. Darkness: Started to agree, but then refused.
        Death to Moses (Threatened)
        Death to Firstborn (announced)

103. At this point, do you thing that Pharaoh could have saved his own child and that of the Egyptians? Explain.

QUESTIONS OVER EXODUS CHAPTERS 12-17

Death of First to arrival at Sinai

104. When does the Hebrew calendar begin, that is, what event marks the beginning month of the Hebrew calendar/
   Ans. The month of the year that the Exodus occurred. (The month our Ester falls in)

105. What Jewish celebration falls on the14th day of this month?
   Ans. Passover.

106. Why is called Passover?
   Ans. Because on that night, the angels of Death passed over the homes of the Israelites and did not kill their firstborn child.

107. What did God tell the Israelites to do so that the Angle of Death would pass over their homes?
   Ans. They must choose a perfect lamb on the 10th day of the month, watch it to be sure it was perfect and then kill it at twilight of the 14th day of that month. They must then take this blood and smear that blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of the door of their home. They were then to roast the lamb, eat it and stay inside their homes. When the Death Angel saw the blood He would pass over the home.

108. Whose death saved the Israelite children from death?
   Ans. The perfect lamb's death.

109. Whose death saves us from eternal death?
   Ans. The perfect Lamb of God, Jesus Christ's death.

110. How do the Jews remember that they were saved from the Angel of Death on that day about 3500 years ago?
   Ans. They celebrate the Passover every year on that day.

111. How do we remember that on Passover almost 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ died so that we might live?
   Ans. We celebrate the Last Supper, Communion, every Sunday and also on Easter.

112. What happened in the homes of the Egyptians, including the home of the Pharaoh, who were not protected by the blood of perfect lamb?
   Ans. The firstborn died.

113. How did the Pharaoh respond to this terrible event?
   Ans. He told Moses to take the Israelites and everything they own3ed and get out of Egypt.

114. What did the Egyptians give to the Israelites?
   Ans. Gold and silver and clothing.

115. Did the Israelites wait to bake bread before they left?
   Ans. No, they left on a great hurry and so the bread was taken so quickly it did not have a chance to rise.

116. Later, when God brought them into their own land, how were they Jews to remember that they had left such a great hurry?
   Ans. They were to eat only unleavened bread (bread not allowed to rise) for one entire week beginning on the 14th day of the first month of the year. This is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

117. Whose bones did the Israelites carry with them when they left Egypt?
   Ans. The bones of Joseph

118. How did the Israelites know which way to go?
   Ans. The LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.

119. What happened when the Israelites came to the "Red" sea?
   Ans. Pharaoh had changed his mind again and sent his best troops to chase after the Israelites and so the Egyptians were approaching the Israelite camp by the sea.

120. How did the Israelites respond to this sight?
   Ans. They were terrified and blamed Moses; they said they would rather have been left as slaves than to die like this.

121. What did Moses say to them?
   Ans. "Do not Fear, Stand by and see the salvation of the LORD which he will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent."

122. How did God accomplish this?
   Ans. He opened the sea so that the Israelites could pass through on dry ground to the other side. When the Egyptians tried follow, God caused them to have difficulty with their chariot wheels so that they could not escape then the sea closed over them. Not one of them remained.

123. How did the Israelites respond to their salvation at the sea?
   Ans. They feared the LORD and they believed in the LORD and in his servant, Moses.

124. Who led the women in joyful dance to celebrate as the Israelites sand a song to the LORD?
   Ans. Mariam

125. How long did it take for the Israelites to get grumpy again?
   Ans. 3 days. Because they could only find bitter water on the way.

126. What did God tell Moses to do to the bitter water?
   Ans. Throw a tree which God showed to him into the water. The water then because good to drink.

127. At Marah, the place of the bitter water made good, what did God promise to be for them if they obeyed Him?
   Ans. The He would always be their Healer.

128. About a month into the trip, what did the Israelites grumble about next?
   Ans. They missed the meat they ate in Egypt. They said they wished they had stayed in Egypt instead of dying of hunger ion the wilderness.

129. What did God do to fix their food problem?
   Ans. He rained down special bread for them called Manna (which the Israelites named. Manna means, "What is it/")

130. How did God say they should gather the Manna?
   Ans. Only as much as they need, every day except the 6th day when they should gather twice as much. On the 7th day they should not gather.

131. What was the third problem they grumbled about?
   Ans. Thirst again. They found no water.

132. What did God tell Moses to do?
   Ans. Strike a rock that God stood over; then water gushed from the rock.

133. What was the last problem the Israelites faced before they arrived at Sinai, the Mountain of God?
   Ans. They were attacked by a group of people called the Amalekites, but God was with the Israelites led by Joshua, Moses' assistant, and the attackers were defeated.

QUESTIONS OVER EXODUS CHAPTER 18-31

The 10 commandments and the Worship Organization

134. Who met the Israelites at Sinai?
   Ans. Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, a.k.a. Reuel, the priest of Midian, with Zipporah and Moses' 2 sons, Gershom and Eliezear.

135. What did Moses tell Jerhro?
   Ans. All that the LORD had done for Israel both in Egypt and on the journey.

136. What was Jethro's advice to Moses and did he take it?
   Ans. Don't exhaust yourself by trying to do everything alone. Appoint men to help you judge the people. Moses did as Jethro advised.

137. What happened positively at Mt. Sinai?
   Ans. The LORD and Israelites agreed to a covenant where by they would obey GOD and He would take them to His people.

138. How did the people first hear the 10 Commandments?
   Ans. God appeared to them in lightening and thunder from the mountain and spoke to them Himself.

139. What was the people's reaction?
   Ans. They were terrified and begged Moses to speak alone to God from then on.

140. Why did God speak to them directly?
   Ans. By doing this he hoped to help them keep from sinning.

141. What are the first 4 Commandments?
   Ans. 1) I AM the LORD your GOD, you shall have no other gods before ME.
          2) You shall not make yourself an idol or any likeness in the heaven above or the earth beneath to worship.
          3) You shall not take the LORD you God's Name in vain, for the LORD will not leave you unpunished if you do.
          4) Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. You may work 6 days but on the 7th you must rest and keep it holy.

142. What are the next 6 Commandments?
   Ans. 5) honor your father and you mother, that your days may be long.
          6) You shall not murder.
          7) You shall not commit adultery.
          8)You shall not steal.
          9) You shall not bear false witness.
          10) You shall not covent.

143. God then gave Moses many other laws, which Moses related to the people. When God said if they would obey Him, He would be their God, what was the people's answer?
   Ans. "All the words which the LORD has spoken we will do."

144. After the Covenant was made, God called Moses to go alone up on Mt. Sinai, How long did he stay there?
   Ans. 40 days

145. While on the mountain, what other matters did God give instructions about?
   Ans. The worship organization of the Tabernacle.

146. Name 6 articles of the Tabernacle and give their location and who could enter that location and when?
   Ans. 1) The Ark of the Covenant: the holy of Holies, only the High Priest, only 1 time per year.
          2) The Golden Altar of Incense: The Holy Place: the Priests, every day.
          3) The Golden Table for the Bread of the Presence: The Holy Place, The Priests, every day.
          4) The Golden Table Lampstand: The Holy Place, The Priests, every day.
          5) The Water Laver: The Court of the Tabernacle, The Men of Israel, whenever they offered sacrifices.
          6) The Bronze Altar of Burnt Offering: The Court of the Tabernacle, The Men of Israel, whenever they offered sacrifices.

QUESTIONS OVER EXODUS CHAPTERS 32-40

The Golden Calf and the Renewal of the Covenant

147. What happened in the camp while Moses was on the mountain?
   Ans. The people made Aaron make a golden calf to worship.

148. When God saw this idol worship, what did He tell Moses He was going to do?
   Ans. destroy the people and make a new people from Moses.

149. Who interceded for the people and what did God do?
   Ans. Moses broke the tablets of stone on which God had written the 10 Commandments, punished the people, prayed for the people offering to die their death, and when they repented God forgave them and make a new set of the 10 Commandments for the people.

150. What kind of God is our God according to His own words?
   Ans. "Compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving, kindness and truth, Who keeps loving kindness for thousands, Who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin, yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.