First Quiz Of 20 Statements
Basic way the game plays:
- A statement is given that may describe something from Torah or it may not
- Under that statement is then the question of ‘Torah’ or ‘Not Torah’?
‘Torah’ is the right answer if:
- the statement is true and found in Torah
‘Not Torah’ is the right answer if:
- the statement is true but not found in Torah
- the statement is false
Questions and Answers
- 1.
It was a month short of 41 years before the Israelite's reached the Jordan River.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Deut. 1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness… 3 In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month…Rate this question:
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- 2.
While slaves, the Israelites grew in number, because the women gave birth before the midwives came to kill the babies.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Ex. 1: 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”Rate this question:
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- 3.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Rate this question:
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- 4.
All the laws in the Torah are only for the Israelites and not for the strangers who resides among them.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
Lev. 18:26 – But you are to keep my laws and rulings and not engage in any of these disgusting practices, neither the citizen nor the foreigner living with youRate this question:
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- 5.
The Levite priests did not have to take a census of their tribe because they could not marry and have children.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not torah
Correct Answer
B. Not torahExplanation
Num. 1:49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count… 53 The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”Rate this question:
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- 6.
God told Moses to send spies and see if the land is what He said it would be.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not torah
Correct Answer
B. Not torahExplanation
Deut. 1:22 You came near to me, (men of Israel) and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up…”Rate this question:
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- 7.
After Joseph died, the new King was scared that the multiplied Israelites would join Pharaoh’s enemies and overthrow him.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Ex. 1:10 “Come, let us deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us…”Rate this question:
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- 8.
It took seven full days and nights of work for God to complete the creation of heaven and earth.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not torah
Correct Answer
B. Not torahExplanation
Gen. 2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.Rate this question:
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- 9.
A man must have a beard.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
Lev. 19:27 “ ‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.”
It is implied to have a beard but never commands itRate this question:
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- 10.
What we call the Aharonic Blessings were for blessing the priests and never supposed to be said over a common person.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
Num. 6:22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.’Rate this question:
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- 11.
When the children of Jacob passed through land belonging to Esau, they had to buy food and water.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Deut. 2:4… Therefore, be careful. 5 Don’t contend with them… 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’ ”Rate this question:
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- 12.
Moses killed a man and then covered up his crime.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Ex. 2:12 He looked this way and that; and when he saw that no one was around, he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.Rate this question:
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- 13.
Time was implemented by God after the flood.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
Gen 1:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and yearsRate this question:
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- 14.
We may eat anything that has fins and scales.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Lev. 11:9 “‘Of all the things that live in the water, you may eat these: anything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in seas or in rivers — these you may eat.Rate this question:
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- 15.
The cloud could linger over the Tabernacle for as much as a year at a time.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Num. 9:22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel…Rate this question:
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- 16.
Moses blamed the Israelites as the reason he was not allowed to enter the land.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Deut. 3:26 But the LORD was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me.Rate this question:
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- 17.
The burning bush and the giving of the Torah was on Mt. Sinai.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
A. TorahExplanation
Ex. 3:1 Now Moshe… came to the mountain of God, to Horev.
& Ex. 19:11 and prepare for the third day. For on the third day, Adonai will come down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.Rate this question:
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- 18.
The fruit Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was an apple.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
It doesn’t specify
what kind of fruit.Rate this question:
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- 19.
Fat is kosher to eat
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
Lev. 3:16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is the LORD’s.Rate this question:
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- 20.
It was over two years from the time they left Egypt before the Israelites left Mt. Sinai.
- A.
Torah
- B.
Not Torah
Correct Answer
B. Not TorahExplanation
Num. 10:11 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.Rate this question:
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