The Families of Genesis Trivia Quiz

Answer: Seth

The name Seth means either anointed or compensation. In a way, Seth was compensation for the death of Abel. Abel was killed by Cain in Genesis 4:8. In the NIV it says, "Now Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let's go out to the field.' While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him." You can first read about Seth in Genesis 4:25 which says, "Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, 'God has granted me another child in place of Abel since Cain killed him.'"(also NIV)


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Answer: Jeremiah

Chapters 4 and 5 of Genesis provide information about these two entirely different men named Lamech and their families. The first Lamech was a descendant of Cain. This Lamech became, as far as we know, the world's first polygamist. He married two women, Adah and Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jubal and Jabal, two sons who ironically have very similar names. As for Zillah, she had a son, Tubal-cain, and a daughter, Naamah.

Now, the second Lamech was a descendant of Seth. We don't know the name of this Lamech's wife because the Bible doesn't tell us. However, their child was Noah, the righteous man who survived the global flood, according to Genesis 6 and 7. Lamech became the grandfather of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Answer: 4

See Genesis 7:13. The people were: Noah, his wife, his three sons, Ham, Shem and Japheth and the sons' wives. Neither Noah's wife nor his sons' wives are mentioned by name. Noah's sons are named in chapter 6 verse 9.

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Answer: 930 years

Adam, Methuselah's great-great-great-great-great grandad, did indeed live 930 years. Of the incorrect choices, it was Enoch that made it to the age of 365 years before God took him out of this world without Enoch experiencing death. The King James version of The Bible was used for this question; Genesis 5:3-28.

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Answer: Canaan

Jacob instructed Joseph to bury him in the family burial plot in Canaan. Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah and Leah were also buried there.

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Answer: Peniel

See verse 30. Jacob says that he saw God face to face and his life was spared. In Hebrew this name means 'face of God'.

Bethel is the place where Jacob had the dream about a ladder going up to heaven and angels ascending and descending on it (see chapter 28).

Reuel and Shabal are two of the descendants of Esau listed in Genesis 36.

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Answer: Asenath

Asenath's name means "Peril or misfortune". Joseph and Asenath had two sons. The first born was Ephraim and the second was Manasseh. You can read about this in Genesis 41:45-50 and then in Genesis 46:20-22.

Later on, the Bible says Jacob was dying he blessed his two grandchildren. However, like Isaac did with Jacob and Esau, he gave Manasseh the younger son the best blessing. He said to Manasseh, "And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations." KJV You can read all about this in Genesis chapter 48.

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Answer: Ephah

Keturah was Abraham's second main wife; he evidently married her after Sarah died. If you count Hagar, Ishmael's mother, as a wife, then Keturah would be his third wife. However, Genesis 25:12 identifies Hagar as Sarah's maid. Some people consider Hagar Abraham's wife based on Genesis 16:3.

At any rate, Keturah bore Abraham six sons, more than any other woman did.

Genesis 25:2, New American Standard Bible:
"She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah."

Genesis 25:4:
"The sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the [grand]sons of Keturah."

Midian and his children were the ancestors of the Midianites. Moses' wife, Zipporah, was a Midianite. See Exodus 2:15.

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Answer: Tamar

The account is in Genesis 38. Briefly, Judah had three sons - Er, Onan and Shelah. It was Er who married Tamar but produced no sons by the time of his death. According to the custom of the time (levirate marriage), Tamar was passed to Onan so that a son of the union could be counted as a son of Er. Onan, too, died without producing a son (distasteful details omitted) so Tamar expected to be passed on to Shelah. Judah, however, was reluctant to lose a third son, so stalled matters for a long time. Tamar grew impatient and, disguised as a prostitute, enticed Judah. The fruits of that union were Perez and Zerah. Perez became an ancestor of Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 1:3 and Luke 3:33.

Of the incorrect alternatives, Dinah was Judah's sister, Bath-shua was his wife and Serah was his brother Asher's daughter and therefore his niece.

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Answer: Phicol

The three brothers, Mamre, Eshcol and Aner, are named in Genesis 14:13 & 14:24.

Phicol was commander of Philistine king Abimelech's army, mentioned in separate incidents in Genesis 21 and 26.

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