Questions on Genesis
1. What is Satan the devil's first appearance in Genesis? Answer
2. Who built the first city? Answer
3. Who created the first musical instruments? Answer
4. Who first created implements that were used for war? Answer
5. Who was the first person to have more than one wife? Answer
6. How old was Noah and his sons when they entered the ark? Answer
7. How many people died in the flood? Answer
8. Where did Noah's Ark finally settle when the waters subsided? Answer
9. Why was it sinful for humanity to build the tower of Babel? Answer
10. What was God's punishment for building the tower? Answer
11. Who were the first people miraculously blinded? Answer
12. Who were the first people personally killed by God? Answer
13. Who was the first person to have the term "Hebrew" used to describe them? Answer
14. Why was silver considered more valuable than gold? Answer
15. What makes Abraham unique in regard to military history? Answer
16. How many sons did Abraham produce? Answer
17. How old was Jacob when he married and had children? Answer
18. Who offered the first vow found in the Bible? Answer
19. How many people migrated to Egypt due to famine? Answer
20. How does the book of Genesis end? Answer
Answers on Genesis
1. Satan the devil's first mention in Scripture is in regard to his tempting of Eve to sin (Genesis 3).
2. The first city the Bible records being built is Enoch. It was built by Cain, after he was rejected by God, and named after his first son (Genesis 4:17).
3. The first musical instruments were created by Jubal who was a descendant of Cain (Genesis 4:16 - 21),
4. Tubalcain, a descendant of Cain, was the first person to work with bronze and iron (Genesis 4:22). He not only made domestic utensils out of metal but also implements of war.
[Musical Instruments in the Bible!]
5. Lamech is the first polygamist mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 4:19).
6. Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came to cleanse the earth of its wickedness (Genesis 7:6). His firstborn son Japheth (Genesis 10:21) was 100, Shem was 98 and Ham was in his 90s when they entered the ark.
7. The time period from Adam and Eve's creation to the flood is about 1,656 years. During this period people lived incredibly long lives and had many children.
Mathematical models, using conservative numbers, have shown the earth could have easily had 3 to 4 BILLION (and possibly more!) living on it at the time of the flood (Biblical Basis for Modern Science, Chapter 15).
8. The "mountains of Ararat" (Genesis 8:4), on which the ark rested, are located in the eastern part of modern-day Turkey. These mountains are composed of two primary peaks. The one called "Greater Ararat" has a present elevation of 5,137 meters (16,854 feet) while the other, called "Little Ararat," is 3,896 meters (12,782 feet) high.
9. God, after the flood, commanded humanity to disperse and repopulate the whole planet (Genesis 9:1, 7). Humans, instead, decided to concentrate themselves in one location and build a tower "(to) establish a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth" (Genesis 11:4).
The tower of Babel was also a sin because it represented mankind's vain attempt to save itself from another flood even through God promised never to do so again (Genesis 9:11, 15).
10. God caused man's one language to become many due to the building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11).
According to the CIA Factbook, as of 2023, there are roughly 7,168 living languages spoken in the world. 80% of these languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people while around 150 languages are believed to be spoken by less than 10 people!
11. The first Biblical record of blindness is found in Genesis 19. Two angels, in their effort to save Lot and his family living in Sodom, caused those attempting to forcibly enter his home to miraculously lose their sight (Genesis 19:11).
12. The turning of Lot's wife into salt, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, are the first two Biblical cases where God personally carried out the death penalty due to sin (Genesis 19).
13. The first use of the term "Hebrew" is found in reference to Abram (Abraham) in Genesis 14:13.
14. In the Middle East, before around 500 B.C., it was harder to find silver than gold and hence it was considered more valuable. This is likely why silver is mentioned before gold in regard to Abraham's wealth (Genesis 13:1 - 2, 24:35).
15. Abraham fought in the first series of battles recorded in the Bible (Genesis 14). His small force of 318 servants, along with a few allies (Genesis 14:13 - 14), defeated a huge army led by King Chedorlaomer of Elam!
16. Abraham had his first son through Hagar and his second through Sarah. After Sarah's death he produced six more sons through a woman named Keturah for a total of eight male descendants.
17. Jacob was 84 years old when he married both Leah and Rachel. Between the ages of 84 and 91 he produced eleven of his twelve sons and his only daughter (Genesis 29:32 - 30:25).
18. The first vow in Scripture is Jacob's promise to give God a tenth of what he produced (Genesis 28:20 - 22).
19. Genesis 46 reveals the names of 66 people who were direct descendants of Israel (Jacob) who migrated to Egypt. If we include Joseph and his two sons already in Egypt, plus Jacob himself in Canaan, this number rises to 70.
20. The book of Genesis ends with a prophecy. Joseph, who is near death, predicts God would someday lead the Israelites out of Egypt and back to their homeland of Canaan. Joseph was so confident of this prophecy that he had the Israelites promise, when this event finally occurred, to retrieve his body and bury it in Canaan (Genesis 50:24 - 25).