Bible Quiz, Intermediate Level: Joseph in Egypt (10 Questions and Answers)

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Ten questions on Joseph in Egypt: dreams, the sale, prison, famine, the reunion and forgiveness.

1. How old is Joseph when he tends the flock with his brothers?
   Answer: Seventeen years old
   Joseph, seventeen years old, was tending the flock with his brothers (Genesis 37:2).
2. How many stars bow down to Joseph in his second dream?
   Answer: Eleven
   In his second dream, the sun, the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to Joseph (Genesis 37:9).
3. For what price do the brothers sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites?
   Answer: Twenty shekels of silver
   The brothers lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver (Genesis 37:28).
4. Why does Joseph refuse Potiphar's wife?
   Answer: It would be a great evil, a sin against God
   Joseph said he could not do such a great evil and sin against God (Genesis 39:9).
5. What scorches the seven thin ears of grain in Pharaoh's dream?
   Answer: The east wind
   Seven thin ears, scorched by the east wind, swallowed the plump ones: seven years of famine (Genesis 41:6-7, 27).
6. Why does Joseph name his firstborn son Manasseh?
   Answer: God made him forget all his troubles
   Manasseh recalls that God made him forget his troubles; Ephraim, that God made him fruitful (Genesis 41:51-52).
7. Who offers to stay as a slave in place of Benjamin?
   Answer: Judah
   Judah asked to stay as a slave in place of the boy, so that Benjamin could go back to his father (Genesis 44:33).
8. On which grandson does Jacob lay his right hand?
   Answer: Ephraim, the younger
   Israel laid his right hand on Ephraim, the younger, despite Joseph's objection (Genesis 48:13-19).
9. What does Joseph tell his brothers after Jacob's death?
   Answer: You meant evil, but God meant it for good
   Joseph reassured them: you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good (Genesis 50:20).
10. What does Joseph make the sons of Israel swear before he dies?
    Answer: To carry his bones up from Egypt
    Joseph made the sons of Israel swear to carry his bones up; he died at the age of 110 (Genesis 50:24-26).