Numbers Bible Quiz

Answer key for Numbers Bible Quiz

1. Q1: Why is the book called 'Numbers'? Answer: Because of the numbering / census of Israel. Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families… Reference: Numbers 1:2 (KJV).
2. Q2: How many spies did Moses send into Canaan? Answer: Twelve. Send thou men… of every tribe a man… Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan. Reference: Numbers 13:2 (KJV).
3. Q3: Which two spies brought back a good report? Answer: Joshua and Caleb. Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. Reference: Numbers 13:30 (KJV).
4. Q4: What happened because Israel believed the evil report? Answer: They wandered forty years in the wilderness. Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness… forty years… ye shall bear your whoredoms. Reference: Numbers 14:33 (KJV).
5. Q5: Whose rod budded, blossomed, and yielded almonds? Answer: Aaron's. Aaron's rod… was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. Reference: Numbers 17:8 (KJV).
6. Q6: What did Moses make when fiery serpents bit the people? Answer: A brazen serpent on a pole. Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Reference: Numbers 21:9 (KJV).
7. Q7: Who was the prophet hired to curse Israel? Answer: Balaam. Balak… sent messengers therefore unto Balaam… to curse this people. Reference: Numbers 22:5 (KJV).
8. Q8: What spoke to Balaam? Answer: His donkey. The LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee? Reference: Numbers 22:28 (KJV).
9. Q9: What did Balaam end up doing instead of cursing Israel? Answer: Both blessing and prophesying. How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?… There shall come a Star out of Jacob. Reference: Numbers 23:8 (KJV).
10. Q10: How old was Aaron when he died on Mount Hor? Answer: One hundred and twenty-three. Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died. Reference: Numbers 33:38 (KJV).