Quiz on Jacob (10 Questions and Answers)

Category: Adults · 10 questions

Ten questions about Jacob: the birthright, Bethel, Laban, Rachel and Leah, and the wrestling at Peniel.

1. What did Esau trade his birthright for?
   Answer: A bowl of stew
   Esau, exhausted, sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew (Genesis 25:29-34).
2. What was Esau's occupation?
   Answer: Hunter
   Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob stayed among the tents (Genesis 25:27).
3. Who advised Jacob to deceive Isaac?
   Answer: His mother Rebekah
   Rebekah told Jacob to bring two young goats to his father so that he would receive the blessing (Genesis 27:6-10).
4. What almost gave Jacob away before his blind father?
   Answer: His voice
   Isaac said: the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau (Genesis 27:22).
5. What did Jacob see in a dream at Bethel?
   Answer: A ladder to heaven
   Jacob dreamed of a ladder set up on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven (Genesis 28:12).
6. What did Jacob name the place of his dream?
   Answer: Bethel
   He named the place Bethel, meaning house of God; the city was formerly called Luz (Genesis 28:19).
7. How many years did Jacob first serve Laban for Rachel?
   Answer: Seven years
   Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days (Genesis 29:20).
8. Whom did Laban give Jacob on the wedding night?
   Answer: Leah
   In the morning, Jacob discovered that it was Leah, Laban's older daughter (Genesis 29:23-25).
9. Whom did Jacob face at the ford of the Jabbok?
   Answer: A man who wrestled with him
   A man wrestled with Jacob until daybreak, and Jacob was left limping from the hip (Genesis 32:24-31).
10. What name did Jacob give to the place of the wrestling?
    Answer: Peniel
    Jacob called it Peniel: I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved (Genesis 32:30).