Questions to Consider

Abraham and Moses

1. What did God ask Abraham to do?

2. What was the date of the covenant approximately?

3. List the line of decent from Abraham throught his grandson?

4. What practice of polytheism did the Israelites eliminate with the test that God gave Abraham?

5. What does Israel mean in English? What does Ismael mean in English?

6. What are the three sections of the Hebrew Bible?

7. Who are the Semites?

8. What holiday in Judaism celebrates the protection God gave to the Israelite infants from the plague in Egypt?

9. What is the significance of the letters YHVH?

10. Who was the last son of Jacob who was sold by his brothers to the pharaoh?

11. What happened to the descendants of Jacob in Egypt?

12. How was Moses saved when the Israelite infants were ordered to be killed?

13. What does Moses mean?

14. When the Pharaoh refused to free the Istraelites, what happened to change his mind? List them.

15.When (the date) did the Exodus happen?

16. When Moses led the people into the desert where did they end up?

17. What did Moses receive from God on Mt Sinai according the the Hebrew traditions?

18. List the ten commandments.