1. Why did Jacob stop at Bath-sheba on the way to Egypt? To offer sacrifices to God.

2. What 3 things did God promise Jacob in a night vision on the way to Egypt? 1) He would make of him a great nation 2)Joseph would be with him when he died (put his hand upon his eyes) and 3) He would bring the nation of Israel out of Egypt.

3. How many of Jacob's sons and grandsons (including Joseph) went to Egypt? 70

4. What did Joseph tell Pharaoh his family's trade was? Shepherds.

5. Why did Joseph tell Pharaoh his family's trade was to feed cattle? Every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians.

6. Why did Joseph want his family to be an abomination to the Egyptians? So they could remain separated from the Egyptians in the land of Goshen.

7. True or False? Joseph presented all of his brothers unto Pharaoh along with his father? False. Only 5 of his brothers were presented to Pharaoh.

8. What did Pharaoh ask Joseph to make his brothers overseers of? His cattle.

9. What did Jacob do for Pharaoh? He blessed him.

10. How old was Jacob when he went down to Egypt? 130

11. As the famine progressed, how did the people of Egypt pay for food after their money ran out? With their cattle.

12. How did the people pay for food after all their herds were gone? With their land.

13. At the end of the famine, what was the only land left that Pharaoh didn't own? The land of the Priests.

14. Where were the people moved to during the famine? Into cities.

15. What did Joseph give the people and command them to do after the famine? He gave them seed and told them to sow the land.

16. How much of the increase, or crops, were the people commanded to give back to Pharaoh? one-fifth.

17. How old was Jacob when he died? 147

18. What did Jacob make Joseph swear before he died? That he would bury him in his father's burying place.

19. What was Joseph's two son's names? Manasseh and Ephraim.

20. What did Jacob do differently with Joseph's sons concerning inheritance? He took them as his own son's.

21. Why did Joseph place Ephraim at his father's left hand and Manasseh at his right hand? Manasseh was the eldest and was supposed to receive the largest blessing.

22. What did Jacob do when his grandsons were placed before him? Crossed his hands so that his right hand rested on Ephraim.

23. What did Joseph then to? (Pertaining to question 22) Tried to move his father's hands.

24. What did Jacob reply when Joseph reminded him that Manasseh was the eldest? I know it...he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he.

25. Whose name did Joseph's sons take that day? Their grandfather's, Israel.

26. What did Israel (Jacob) give Joseph that he did not bless his other sons with? An extra portion that he had taken from the Amorities.

27. At the beginning of Genesis 49 Jacob was dying; why did he call all his sons together? To tell them what would befall them in the last days.

28. Who was Jacob's first born son? Reuben

29. Why did Jacob say Reuben was unstable and would not excel? He had slept with Jacob's wife, Bilhah.

30. Who were Jacob's second and third sons? Simeon and Levi.

31. Why did Jacob say his second and third born sons were cruel? Because they slaughtered all the defenseless men of Shechem.

32. Which one of Jacob's sons did he predict would be praised by his brethren? Judah

33. Which son was foretold to be a man of the sea? Zebulon

34. Which son did Jacob call a fruitful bough and pronounce the most blessings on? Joseph

35. Which son was likened to a wolf? Benjamin

36. Where did Jacob ask to be buried? In the cave at Machpelah in Mamre.

37. Who all was already buried in the above mentioned cave? Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah and Leah.

38. Name the 12 tribes of Israel. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.

39. When Jacob died, what did Joseph command the physicians to do? Embalm him

40. How many days did the Egyptians mourn for one that was embalmed? 40

41. What did Joseph ask of Pharaoh after his father died? That he be allowed to take him back to Canaan and bury him.

42. Joseph was considered the "governor of the land", why did he have to ask Pharaoh's permission to leave Egypt? He was still Pharaoh's servant, a bought slave.

43. Did Pharaoh let Joseph and his brothers go back to Canaan and bury their father? Yes

44. How many of the Egyptians went with Joseph to bury his father? All of Pharaoh's servants and all of the elders of Egypt.

45. How many of Jacob's family went to bury him? Everyone except the children and flocks.

46. How long did they mourn for Jacob at the threshing floor of Atad? 7 days

47. What did Joseph's brothers send a messenger to say to Joseph once they returned to Egypt after buring Jacob? They asked his forgiveness for selling him into slavery.

48. How did Joseph answer the petition of his brother's? He told them God meant it for good and he would take care of them.

49. What did Joseph make the Children of Israel swear before he died? That they would carry his bones back to Canaan when God brought them out of Egypt.

50. How old was Joseph when he died? 110