Q 01/05

Before God renamed her in Genesis 17, Abraham's wife was known by what name?

A) Sarai

B) Serah

C) Salome

D) Sapphira

Answer · why

A) Sarai

Sarai became Sarah in the same chapter where Abram became Abraham, as God promised the couple a son of their own.

Q 02/05

According to Genesis, how old was Sarah when she died?

A) 99

B) 110

C) 120

D) 127

Answer · why

D) 127

Abraham bought the cave near Hebron to bury her, the first land the Israelites owned in Canaan.

Q 03/05

After an angel found her by a spring, Hagar called God by which name, often rendered 'the God who sees me'?

A) El Shaddai

B) El Roi

C) El Elyon

D) Adonai

Answer · why

B) El Roi

El Roi was her name for him after the angel sent her back to her mistress and promised her descendants too many to count.

Q 04/05

Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, came from which nation?

A) Edom

B) Canaan

C) Egypt

D) Midian

Answer · why

C) Egypt

Egypt was her homeland, and after Abraham sent her and Ishmael away she found her son an Egyptian wife in the wilderness of Paran.

Q 05/05

How did Abraham's servant recognise Rebekah as the right wife for Isaac at the well?

A) She offered to water his camels

B) She recited a blessing

C) She was wearing a veil

D) She brought him bread

Answer · why

A) She offered to water his camels

She offered to water his camels, the very sign he had prayed for, and kept drawing water until every one of his ten camels had finished.