GENESIS

(Answers)



CHAPTER 1

  1. God.
  2. a. Light. God divided the light from the darkness refers to either the separation of good and evil or it is literally a reference to day and night as is stated in verse 5. If the latter is the meaning then this is when days and nights were separated but there was no reference to actually time of the day, month, or year. This would come later when God creates the sun, the moon, and the stars (vs. 14). b. Firmament (sky) c. Dry land (earth) d. Stars, sun, and moon. e. All the animals (sea, flying, and land creatures) f. Man g. Nothing (He rested)

CHAPTER 2

  1. a. The dust. b. The dust.
  2. Out of the rib of man.
  3. In the Garden of Eden.

CHAPTER 3

  1. a. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. b. The serpent.
  2. a. He would crawl on his belly and eat dust. b. He would have to toil the ground. c. She would have painful births and be subject to man.
  3. To keep man out of the Garden of Eden.
  4. So man would not eat of it and live forever.

CHAPTER 4

1.      He did not honor God by his offering as Abel did. Abel gave of life and blood to receive righteousness from God. Cain’s gift was convenient and came from the ground which God had cursed.

  1. He killed him.
  2. He put a curse on him.
  3. That someone would find him and kill him. b. He would set a mark on him to protect him.
  4. Seth.

CHAPTER 5

  1. Enoch.
  2. Seth.
  3. Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

CHAPTER 6

  1. a. The angels. b. They took the daughters of men as wives.
  2. a. Man was very wicked and bent on evil. b. He was sorry he had made man.
  3. a. Noah. b. Build an ark.
  4. 300 cubits long (450 feet), 50 cubits wide (75 feet), 30 cubits high (45 feet).
  5. a. Seven each. A male and a female were taken of each kind. This would be one male for each female. However, this would leave one clean animal without a mate. This one clean animal was used as a sacrifice to the Lord by Noah upon exit of the ark after the dry land had appeared. b. Two

CHAPTER 7

  1. 40 days.
  2. Eight.
  3. In the seas.

CHAPTER 8

  1. 150 days.
  2. 3 months.
  3. First month of the next year.

CHAPTER 9

  1. The blood of that man or that beast.
  2. A rainbow.
  3. a. He wanted his brothers to come see. b. His son would be a servant to his brethren.

CHAPTER 10

  1. Ham.

CHAPTER 11

  1. a. A city and a tower that reaches to the heavens. b. To make a name for themselves so they would not be scattered. c. Their actions exhibited pride and haughtiness and a defiance against the counsel of God. Therefore, He scattered them and gave them different languages.
  2. 292 years.
  3. Abram's nephew (son of his brother, Haran).

CHAPTER 12

  1. a. To leave his father's house. b. To make a great nation from him.
  2. The land of Canaan.
  3. Because he took Abram's wife to his house.

CHAPTER 13

  1. a. There was not enough room for both of them. b. They decided to split up. c. He went to Canaan. d. He went to Sodom.

CHAPTER 14

  1. a. They were taken captive. b. He pursued and attacked their captors and brought them back.
  2. a. He gave a tithe to God. b. Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High.
  3. a. Abram could keep the goods and give him the people. b. He said "No" lest the king of Sodom say he made Abram rich.

CHAPTER 15

  1. One of Abram's servants.
  2. Like the sand of the sea.
  3. a. They would be in bondage. b. Four hundred years.
  4. The land of Canaan as an inheritance.

CHAPTER 16

  1. a. Hagar, her servant. b. She despised Sarai. c. She dealt harshly with Hagar.
  2. To multiply her son's descendants.
  3. Ishmael.

CHAPTER 17

  1. a. Abraham. b. Father of a multitude.
  2. Circumcision.
  3. a. Sarah b. Princess.
  4. A son.

CHAPTER 18

  1. a. Three men standing by him. b. Angels. c. Lord.
  2. a. Sarah would have a son. b. She laughed.
  3. a. Sodom. b. To destroy Sodom because it was very sinful. c. He worried that Lot would be killed also.

CHAPTER 19

  1. a. Two. b. Lot. c. Yes. d. He bowed down to them.
  2. The men of the city wanted to have relations with the men at Lot's house.
  3. They blinded them.
  4. a. God. b. Destroy it with fire and brimstone.
  5. They thought he was joking.
  6. To a little city called Zoar.
  7. a. She either missed what she left behind or was curious of what was happening. In any case she disobeyed God's instructions. b. She turned into a pillar of salt.
  8. a. Get him drunk and lay with him. b. To have children because no other men were around.
  9. The Moabites and the Ammonites.

CHAPTER 20

  1. He thought they would kill him for Sarah.
  2. God.
  3. The wombs of the women opened and they were able to have children.

CHAPTER 21

  1. a. Isaac. b. Laughter.
  2. He scoffed at Isaac.
  3. Cast them out.
  4. He would make him a great nation.
  5. They would show kindness to each other.

CHAPTER 22

  1. To test his faith.
  2. Isaac.
  3. Because he had not withheld his son.
  4. A ram.
  5. The seed of Abraham (which was Christ who would come later).
  6. a. Bethuel. b. Her father was Abram's nephew.

CHAPTER 23

  1. a. Kirjath Arba (Hebron). b. The cave of Machpelah. c. The sons of Heth. d. Ham.

CHAPTER 24

  1. a. His oldest servant. b. To his father's house.
  2. a. Rebekah. b. If the woman he asked for a drink from also offered to give his camels a drink then he would know she was the one sent by God.
  3. She covered her face.
  4. Yes.

CHAPTER 25

  1. In the cave of Machpelah.
  2. Two nations were in her womb.
  3. a. Esau and Jacob. b. Hairy and deceitful.
  4. a. Esau. b. Because he ate of Esau's game.
  5. a. His birthright. b. He gave up his right to the first blessings and inheritance due to the firstborn.

CHAPTER 26

  1. a. Abimelech king of Gerar. b. His sister. c. King Abimelech. d. He saw Isaac and Rebekah showing endearment to each other. e. He confronted Isaac.
  2. To depart from the land.
  3. a. Esau. b. He had taken wives from foreigners.

CHAPTER 27

  1. a. To hunt for and cook his favorite meal. b. She wanted Esau's blessing for Jacob. c. She disguised Jacob in Esau's clothes and put animal skins on his neck and hands to make him hairy. She cooked the meal.
  2. Abundance of the land and master over his brethren.
  3. To live by the sword and serve his brother.
  4. Kill him.
  5. a. She had him go to her brother's house in Haran. b. She did not want Jacob to have a wife from the daughters of Heth.

CHAPTER 28

  1. a. The descendants of Ishmael. b. To please Isaac.
  2. a. He dreamed of a ladder going to heaven with angels ascending and descending on it. b. His descendants would be as the dust of the earth and all the families of the earth would be blessed. c. Bethel. d. House of God.

CHAPTER 29

  1. a. She was his mother's niece. b. Shepherdess.
  2. Rachal as his wife.
  3. Leah.
  4. a. 7 days later. b. 7 years.
  5. Reuben - a son Simeon - heard; Levi - attached Judah - praise

CHAPTER 30

  1. a. Dan - judge Naphtali - my wrestling b. Gad - fortune Asher - happy
  2. a. Mandrakes b. They were used to help a woman conceive. c. To lie with Abraham.
  3. Issachar - wages Zebulun - dwelling
  4. a. Dinah. b. Judgement.
  5. a. Joseph. b. He will add. c. In the fourteenth year of serving Laban.
  6. Because he was being blessed while Jacob was there.
  7. All the spotted and specked sheep and lambs.
  8. a. Rods of green poplar, almond, and chestnut trees. b. In the water trough. c They came out streaked, speckled, and spotted.

CHAPTER 31

  1. God.
  2. a. His household idols. b. In the camel's saddle. c. Because the manner of women was with her. (The saddle would be unclean).
  3. 20 years.
  4. His eldest would only be twelve. His first was born from Leah after his first seven years with Laban. Subtract the first year of Leah's pregnancy from the remaining 13 years of Jacob's time with Laban and we have 12 years since the first child was born.

CHAPTER 32

1.      In case Esau attacked him, some could escape.

2.      To appease him and offer peace.

3.      God. b. To bless him. c. The muscle shrank.

4.      He had done the right things in all his adversities and had pleased God.

CHAPTER 33

  1. He loved them the most.
  2. He embraced him and wept.
  3. Because his people and his flock were weary.
  4. a. Shechem. b. The children of Hamor.

CHAPTER 34

  1. a. He violated her. b. To get Dinah as a wife for him.
  2. They were grieved and very angry.
  3. a. He proposed that they marry each other's daughters and dwell in the same land. b. All the men in the city must be circumcised.
  4. That all of Jacob's livestock would become theirs.
  5. a. They went in and killed them all. b. No.

CHAPTER 35

  1. The land of Canaan.
  2. a. Israel. b. Struggle with God.
  3. a. Giving birth. b. Ephrath (Bethlehem).
  4. a. Benjamin. b. Right hand. c. Two.
  5. Bilhah, his father's concubine.
  6. a. 180 years. b. Esau and Jacob.

CHAPTER 36

  1. Canaan. b. Ishmael.
  2. Esau.

CHAPTER 37

1.      a. He was born in Jacob's old age. b. A tunic of many colors. c. No, they hated and envied him.

2.      They would bow down to him and serve him.

3.      a. Kill him. b. Reuben. c. Sold him into slavery.

4.      To Egypt.

5.      He was killed by a wild beast.

CHAPTER 38

  1. They were killed by God. b. Shelah.
  2. He had not given his son, Shelah, as a husband to Tamar. (She needed a child to carry on the name.)
  3. a. Two. b. No.

CHAPTER 39

1.      a. Egypt. b. Potiphar. c. He became the overseer of all that he had.

2.      a. To lie with her. b. No.

3.      a. She accused him of trying to lie with her. b. In the prison. c. He was in charge of all the prisoners.

CHAPTER 40

  1. Pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker.
  2. a. In three days he would be released from prison, serving Pharaoh again. b. In three days he would be hung.
  3. Please mention Joseph and his innocence to Pharaoh.
  4. Yes.

CHAPTER 41

  1. a. Two years. b. Seven years of plenty and then seven years of famine.
  2. a. Save up one-fifth of the produce in the years of plenty so there would be plenty in the time of famine. b. Joseph.
  3. a. No one higher than Joseph except Pharaoh. b. Thirty years old. c. Thirteen years (see 37:2).

CHAPTER 42

  1. a. Benjamin. b. Lest some calamity befall him.
  2. Governor.
  3. a. Yes. b. No.
  4. Spies.
  5. a. Put them in prison. b. Three days. c. Because of what they had done to their brother, Joseph.
  6. Simeon.
  7. a. His money bag. b. They were afraid.

CHAPTER 43

  1. After their grain had run out.
  2. The money for the first grain.
  3. To accuse them of taking the money for the first grain.
  4. He cried.
  5. According to their ages and birthrights.
  6. He gave him more of everything.

CHAPTER 44

  1. His silver cup.
  2. a. His slave. b. They tore their clothes. c. His father would die in sorrow if something happened to Benjamin.

CHAPTER 45

  1. They were shocked and in fear.
  2. a. God. b. To save his family from death and to create their posterity.
  3. Pharaoh.

CHAPTER 46

  1. a. God. b. "Go to Egypt. You will have many descendants there."
  2. Goshen.
  3. Seventy.

CHAPTER 47

  1. a. By their livestock. b. Sold their land to Joseph.
  2. Seventeen years.
  3. "Do not bury me in Egypt, but bury me with my fathers."

CHAPTER 48

  1. a. Manasseh and Ephraim. b. As his own sons.
  2. Ephraim, the youngest.
  3. One portion above his brothers.

CHAPTER 49

  1. a. He would not excel. b. He had defiled his father's bed.
  2. They would be divided among Israel.
  3. He would receive praise from his brothers, and the kingship would always be in his house.
  4. Joseph.
  5. a. The cave of Machpelah. b. Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah.

CHAPTER 50

  1. They feared Joseph would repay them for their evil.
  2. Because he had already forgiven them. He was beyond doing what they feared.
  3. To carry his bones out of Egypt.