1.
Who appeared to Jacob in a vision at Beersheba?
Answer: God.
2.
What promise did God make to Jacob before he
went to Egypt?
Answer: That He would
make him a great nation there and go with him.
3.
How many direct descendants of Jacob went to
Egypt with him?
Answer: Seventy.
4.
Who did Jacob send ahead to Joseph to guide the
way to Goshen?
Answer: Judah.
5.
What was Jacob’s reaction when he saw Joseph?
Answer: He said, “Now
let me die, since I have seen your face.”
6.
What land did Pharaoh give to Jacob and his
family?
Answer: Goshen.
7.
What was Joseph’s advice about what his family
should say they do for a living?
Answer: That they are
shepherds.
8.
How did Pharaoh respond to Jacob?
Answer: He welcomed
him and offered the best of the land.
9.
How old was Jacob when he met Pharaoh?
Answer: 130 years old.
10.
What did Joseph collect from the people in
exchange for food during the famine?
Answer: Money,
livestock, and eventually land.
11.
What were the names of Joseph’s two sons?
Answer: Manasseh and
Ephraim.
12.
Who received the greater blessing from Jacob,
the older or younger son?
Answer: The younger,
Ephraim.
13.
What unusual thing did Jacob do when blessing
the boys?
Answer: He crossed his
arms.
14.
How did Joseph react to Jacob’s blessing?
Answer: He tried to
correct him, thinking it was a mistake.
15.
What did Jacob say about God when blessing his
grandsons?
Answer: That God had
been his shepherd all his life.
16.
Which son did Jacob say would not excel because
he defiled his father’s bed?
Answer: Reuben.
17.
What prophecy did Jacob make about Judah?
Answer: The scepter
would not depart from Judah.
18.
Which son was called a "fruitful
vine"?
Answer: Joseph.
19.
What did Jacob say about Simeon and Levi?
Answer: That their
anger was fierce and they would be scattered.
20.
Where did Jacob want to be buried?
Answer: In the cave of
Machpelah, with Abraham and Isaac.
21.
How did the Egyptians react to Jacob’s death?
Answer: They mourned
for him 70 days.
22.
Who went with Joseph to bury Jacob?
Answer: His brothers,
Egyptian officials, and many servants.
23.
What was Joseph’s response when his brothers
feared he would take revenge?
Answer: “You meant
evil against me, but God meant it for good.”
24.
How long did Joseph live?
Answer: 110 years.
25.
What did Joseph ask his descendants to do with
his bones?
Answer: To carry them
out of Egypt when God visited them.