Expert Bible Quiz: The Tabernacle and the Laws of Worship (10 Questions and Answers)

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Ten sharp questions on the tabernacle's measurements, the priest's garments, the Day of Atonement and the feasts.

1. How long is the ark of acacia wood (Exodus 25:10)?
   Answer: Two and a half cubits
   The ark is two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high (Exodus 25:10).
2. How high must the altar of incense be, one cubit square (Exodus 30:2)?
   Answer: Two cubits
   The altar of incense is a cubit long, a cubit wide and two cubits high (Exodus 30:2); the altar of burnt offering is three cubits high (Exodus 27:1).
3. How many curtains of goat hair make the tent over the tabernacle (Exodus 26:7)?
   Answer: Eleven
   Eleven curtains of goat hair make the tent, while the tabernacle itself has ten curtains of fine linen (Exodus 26:1 and 26:7).
4. How many silver bases support the boards at the rear of the tabernacle, on the west (Exodus 26:25)?
   Answer: Sixteen
   There are eight boards at the rear, six plus two corner boards, so sixteen silver bases, two under each board (Exodus 26:25).
5. How high are the hangings that form the court of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:18)?
   Answer: Five cubits
   The court is a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and five cubits high (Exodus 27:18).
6. Which stone begins the first row of the breastpiece of judgment (Exodus 28:17)?
   Answer: A sardius
   The first row has a sardius, a topaz and an emerald; the carbuncle begins the second row (Exodus 28:17-18).
7. Which tribe was Oholiab, Bezalel's helper, from (Exodus 31:6)?
   Answer: Dan
   Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, was of the tribe of Dan; Bezalel, son of Uri, was of the tribe of Judah (Exodus 31:2 and 31:6).
8. From what age does a man pay the half shekel in the census (Exodus 30:14)?
   Answer: Twenty years old
   Everyone counted in the census, from twenty years old and up, gives the half shekel as an offering to the LORD (Exodus 30:13-14).
9. On which day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29)?
   Answer: The tenth day
   The Day of Atonement is the tenth day of the seventh month; the Feast of Tabernacles begins on the fifteenth (Leviticus 16:29 and 23:34).
10. How many days are counted to the day after the seventh Sabbath (Leviticus 23:16)?
    Answer: Fifty days
    After seven full weeks, you count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath (Leviticus 23:15-16).