GENESIS
Updated 11/2023
CHAPTER 1
- Who created the heavens and
the earth?
- What was created on: a. the
first day? b. The second day? c. The third day? d. The fourth day? e. The
fifth day? f. The sixth day?
CHAPTER 2
- What did God do on the
seventh day?
- a. From what was the first
man formed? b. From what were the animals formed?
- What four rivers flowed from
Eden?
- Where did God place Adam?
- How was woman formed?
- Of what tree were Adam and
Eve not to eat?
CHAPTER 3
- Who tricked Eve into eating
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
- a. What curse did God put on
the serpent? b. What curse did God put on the man? c. What curse did God
put on the woman?
- Why did God place the
cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden?
- Why was a sword placed at
the tree of life?
CHAPTER 4
- Why didn’t God respect
Cain’s offering?
- What did Cain do to Abel?
- What did God do to Cain
because of this?
- a. Why did God's judgment
worry Cain? b. What consolation did Cain receive from God?
- Who was born to Adam in
place of Abel?
CHAPTER 5
- Who walked with God and was
taken by Him?
- From what son of Adam was
Noah?
- Who were Noah's sons?
CHAPTER 6
- a. Who were the sons of God
that looked on the daughters of men? b. What did they do wrong?
- a. How did God view the
world? b. How did He feel about man at this time?
- a. Who did God find that was
righteous? b. What did God tell him to do?
- What were the dimensions of
the ark?
- How many pairs of all living
things were to go into the ark?
CHAPTER 7
- a. Of the clean animals, how
many were to be taken of the males and the females? b. How many of the
unclean animals?
- How many days did it rain on
the earth?
- How many people were on the
ark?
- Where were the animals of the
seas?
CHAPTER 8
- How many days did the ark
float on the water after the rains had stopped?
- How many months did it take
the water to decrease to see the mountains?
- In which month of the year
did the earth finally dry up?
CHAPTER 9
- What did God require as
justice if a man was killed by another man or a beast?
- What symbol did God give to
show he would never destroy the earth by flood again?
- a. What was Ham's reaction
to his father being drunk and unclothed? b. What was his curse because of
this?
CHAPTER 10
- Who was the father of Cush
and Canaan?
- From what son of Ham came
the Philistines?
CHAPTER 11
- a. What did the people of
the land decide to build? b. Why did they want to build this? c. What did
God do about this?
- Who is the father of Abram?
- How many years was it after
the flood to Abram's birth?
- Who was Lot?
CHAPTER 12
- a. What did God tell Abram
to do? b. What did He promise Abram?
- What land did God promise
to give Abram?
- Why did the Lord plague
Pharaoh's house?
CHAPTER 13
- a. What problem occurred in
the land because of Abram and Lot's livestock? b. What was the solution to
this problem? c. Where did Abram go? d. Where did Lot go?
CHAPTER 14
- a. What happened to the
people of the city where Lot lived? b. What did Abram do about this?
- a. What did Abram do with
some of the spoil taken in battle? b. Before whom did he do this?
- a. What did the king of
Sodom offer Abram? b. What was Abram's answer? Why?
CHAPTER 15
- Who was Eliezer?
- What did God tell Abram
concerning his descendants?
- a. What would first happen
to Abram's descendants? b. How long would this happen?
- What would be God's reward
to Abram's descendants?
CHAPTER 16
- a. By whom did Abram's
wife, Sarai, tell him to have children? b. Once she conceived, how did
this person react to Sarai? c. What did Sarai do to her after this
reaction?
- What did God promise Hagar?
- What was Hagar's son's
name?
CHAPTER 17
- a. When Abram was
ninety-nine years old, to what did God change his name?: b. What does this
name mean?
- What was the sign of the
covenant between God and Abram?
- a. What was Sarai renamed?
b. What does this name mean?
- What did God promise
Abraham through Sarah?
CHAPTER 18
- a. What did Abraham see
while sitting in his tent? b. Who did Abraham realize were his visitors?
c. Who was speaking with him?
- a. What did the men tell
Abraham about Sarah? b. How did Sarah answer this?
- a. Where were the men
enroute? b. What was their purpose to go there? Why? c. What worried
Abraham the most about the purpose of the men?
CHAPTER 19
- a. How many of the angels
went to Sodom? b. Who met them when they arrived? c. Did he understand who
they were? d. How did he approach the men?
- What happened at Lot's
house?
- What did the angels do to
the men of the town?
- a. Who sent the men to
Sodom? b. What were they to do to Sodom?
- How did Lot's son-in-laws
view his warning?
- Where did Lot and his
family flee?
- a. Why did Lot's wife look
back at Sodom? b. What happened to her?
- a. What did Lot's daughters
plot to do to him? b. Why?
- Who are the descendants of
Lot?
CHAPTER 20
- Why did Abraham call Sarah
his sister in Gerar?
- Who prevented king
Abimelech from touching Sarah?
- After Sarah was returned to
Abraham, what happened to Abimelech's household?
CHAPTER 21
- a. What did Abraham and
Sarah name their son? b. What does this name mean? c. How old were Sarah
and Abraham when their son was born?
- What did Hagar's son,
Ishmael, think of the weaned son?
- What did Sarah tell Abraham
to do with Hagar and her son?
- What did God tell Hagar He
would do for her son?
- What was Abraham's and
Abimelech's covenant?
CHAPTER 22
- Why did God tell Abraham to
sacrifice his son?
- Who carried the wood on his
back for the sacrifice?
- Why did God know that
Abraham feared Him?
- What did God provide for
the sacrifice?
- In whom would the nations
be blessed?
- a. Who was the father of
Rebekah? b. How was Rebekah's father related to Abraham?
CHAPTER 23
- a. Where did Sarah die? b.
How old was Sarah when she died?
- a. Where did Abraham bury
Sarah? b. Who owned the land where she was buried? c. From what son of
Noah were these people?
CHAPTER 24
- a. Who did Abraham send to
find a wife for Isaac? b. To where was he to go? c. To what city did he go?
- a. Who met the servant at
the well? b. How would the servant know which woman would be the one
chosen by the Lord for Isaac?
- What did Rebekah do when
she saw Isaac?
- Did Isaac love Rebekah?
CHAPTER 25
- a. Who did Abraham take as a
wife? b. How many children did she have with Abraham?
- Where was Abraham buried?
- What did God tell Rebekah
about the children in her womb?
- a. What were her children's
names? b. What do their names mean?
- a. Who was Isaac's favorite
son? b. Why?
- a. What did Esau trade with
Jacob one day? b. What did he give up?
CHAPTER 26
- a. Where did Isaac go at
the time of the famine in the land? b. How did Isaac refer to Rebekah at
this place? c. Who saw Isaac and Rebekah while looking through his window?
d. What did he see? e. What was his reaction?
- What did king Abimelech
tell Isaac to do after Isaac became very rich and prosperous?
- a. Who grieved Isaac and
Rebekah? b. Why?
CHAPTER 27
- a. Before Isaac died what
did he want Esau to do for him? b. What did Rebekah want for Jacob? c. How
did Rebekah accomplish this?
- What was Isaac's blessing
for Jacob?
- What was Isaac's blessing
for Esau?
- What did Esau resolve to do
to Jacob after Isaac's death?
- a. Where did Rebekah send
Jacob? b. What was her reason to Isaac for sending Jacob away?
CHAPTER 28
- a. When Jacob left where
did Esau go to find a wife? b. Why did he go there? c. Who did Esau take
as a wife?
- a. What did Jacob dream on
the way to Haran? b. What was he promised in his dream? c. What did Jacob
call the place? d. What does it mean?
CHAPTER 29
- a. How was Rachel related to
Jacob? b. What was Rachel's work?
- What did Jacob ask from
Laban as payment for his work?
- Whom did Laban give to Jacob
in marriage?
- a. When did Jacob marry
Rachel? b. How much longer did Jacob serve Laban?
- What are the names of Leah's
first four sons and the meaning of their names?
CHAPTER 30
- a. What sons were born to
Bilhah? What does each name mean? b. What sons were born to Zilpah? What
does each name mean?
- a. What did Rachel want from
Leah's son, Reuben? b. Why did she want these from Leah? c. What was the
proposed trade between Rachal and Leah?
- Name Leah's last sons and
the meaning of their names:
- a. What daughter was born to
Leah? b. What is the meaning of her name?
- a. What son was born to
Rachel? b. What is the meaning of his name? c. When was he born?
- Why did Laban want Jacob to
stay longer?
- What did Jacob want as wages
this time?
- a. What did Jacob use to
help the livestock multiply? b. Where did he place them? c. How did the
livestock look?
CHAPTER 31
- Who told Jacob to leave
Laban's household?
- a. What did Rachal take from
Laban's house? b. Where did she put it? c. Why did Laban not look there?
- How long had Jacob stayed
with Laban?
- What would be the age of
Jacob's oldest child at this time?
CHAPTER 32
- Why did Jacob divide his
possessions and people in two companies?
- Why did Jacob send gifts to
Esau?
- a. With whom did Jacob
think he had wrestled? b. What did Jacob want this man to do for him? c.
What happened to Jacob's hip?
- How had Jacob struggled
with man and God and prevailed?
- What was Jacob’s new name?
CHAPTER 33
- Why did Jacob put Rachal
and Joseph last?
- When Esau saw Jacob, what
was his reaction to Jacob?
- Why did Jacob not go with
Esau to Seir at the same pace?
- a. Where did Jacob finally
pitch his tent? b. From whom did Jacob buy land?
CHAPTER 34
- a. What did Shechem do to
Dinah, Jacob's daughter? b. What did Shechem want his father to do for
him?
- When Jacob's sons heard
about what happened to Dinah, how did they feel?
- a. What did Hamor propose
they should do? b. What did Jacobs' sons what done first?
- What advantage did Hamor
tell his people they would receive if they followed the conditions of
Jacob's sons?
- a. What did Dinah's
brothers, Simeon and Levi, do to the men of the city of Shechem? b. What
was Jacob's reaction to his sons' actions?
CHAPTER 35
- Where did God tell Jacob to
go?
- a. To what did God change
Jacob's name? b. What does this name mean?
- a. How did Rachel die? b.
To what city were Rachel and Jacob going?
- a. What was the name of
Rachel's last son? b. What does this name mean?` c. How many sons did
Rachel have?
- Who did Reuben lie with
immorally?
- a. How old was Isaac when
he died? b. Who buried Isaac?
CHAPTER 36
- From what land did Esau
choose his wives?
- From what son of Isaac are
the Amaleks (Amalekites)?
CHAPTER 37
- a. Why did Jacob love
Joseph more than his other children? b. What did he make for Joseph? c.
How did Joseph's brothers feel about him?
- What did Joseph's dreams
mean to his brothers?
- a. What did Joseph's
brothers plot against him? b. Who did not want to do this to Joseph? c.
What did they do to Joseph?
- Where did the Ishmaelites
take Joseph?
- What did the brothers tell
Jacob about Joseph?
- To whom was Joseph sold?
CHAPTER 38
- a. What happened to Judah's
sons Er and Onan? b. Who did Judah promise to Tamar as a husband?
- Why did Tamar play the
harlot with Judah?
- How many children did Tamar
have?
CHAPTER 39
- a. Where was Joseph taken
as a slave? b. Who was his master? c. What did Joseph soon become in his
master's house?
- a. What did Joseph's
master's wife want from him? b. What was Joseph's response to her?
- a. What accusation did the
master's wife bring against Joseph? b. Where did Joseph end up because of
the accusation? c. What position did Joseph have while in prison?
CHAPTER 40
- Who was thrown into prison
along with Joseph?
- a. What was the meaning of
the chief butler's dream? b. What was the meaning of the chief baker's
dream?
- What did Joseph ask of the
chief butler?
- Did any of Joseph's
interpretations of dreams come true?
CHAPTER 41
- a. How long after the chief
butler was released did Pharaoh have his dreams? b. What was the meaning
of his dreams?
- a. What did Joseph
recommend Pharaoh do for the next few years? b. Who did Pharaoh appoint to
Joseph's recommendation?
- a. How high was Joseph's
position to Pharaoh? b. How old was Joseph at this time? c. How long had
Joseph been a slave?
CHAPTER 42
- a. Who was left behind
while Joseph's ten brothers went to Egypt? b. Why?
- What was Joseph's official
title in the land of Egypt?
- a. When Joseph saw his
brothers, did he recognize them? b. Did his brothers recognize him?
- What did Joseph accuse of
his brothers?
- a. What did Joseph do to
all his brothers? b. For how long? c. For what reason did Joseph's
brothers think this was happening to them?
- Who did Joseph keep behind
while the other brothers took the grain back home?
- a. What did Joseph put in
each brother's sack? b. How did they feel when this was discovered?
CHAPTER 43
- When did Jacob decide to
let his sons go back to Egypt?
- What did he send with his
sons to Egypt?
- What were the brothers
afraid of when Joseph invited them to dinner?
- What did Joseph do when he
saw Benjamin?
- How did Joseph seat his
brothers?
- How did Joseph treat
Benjamin?
CHAPTER 44
- What did Joseph tell his
steward to put in Benjamin's sack?
- a. What did Joseph request
Benjamin become to him? b. How did the brothers react to this? c. What did
Judah tell Joseph would be the result of his request?
CHAPTER 45
- When Joseph revealed
himself to his brothers, how did they react?
- a. Who did Joseph tell his
brothers had allowed these things to happen to him? b. Why did this happen
to Joseph?
- Who approved of Joseph's
family coming to Egypt?
CHAPTER 46
- a. Who spoke to Jacob in a
dream after his sons returned from Egypt? b. What did He tell Jacob?
- To what land did Jacob and
his family go?
- How many descendants of
Jacob came to Egypt?
CHAPTER 47
- a. When money ran out in
the land of Egypt, how did the people pay Joseph for the grain? b. When
this ran out, how did the people pay for the grain? c. What law did Joseph
implement?
- How long did Jacob get to
be with Joseph before he died?
- What did Jacob ask Joseph
to promise him upon his death?
CHAPTER 48
- a. Who were Joseph's two
sons? b. What did they become to Jacob?
- Which of Joseph's sons did
Jacob bless first?
- What was Jacob's blessing
for Joseph?
CHAPTER 49
- a. What was Reuben's
blessing? b. Why?
- How were Simeon and Levi
blessed?
- What was Judah's blessing?
- From what son would the
shepherd, the stone of Israel come?
- a. Where did Jacob wish to
be buried? b. Who else is buried there?
CHAPTER 50
- What did Joseph's brothers
fear after their father died?
- Why did Joseph weep when the
messengers came from the brothers?
- What did Joseph ask his
people to do for him when he died?