Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns. This annual atonement must be made with the blood of the atoning sin offering for the generations to come. It is most holy to the Lord.”

• Exodus 30:10

Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull’s blood into the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 4:16

He shall offer them before the Lord to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. “‘These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.

• Leviticus 12:7

“But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow, a sheep or a goat; they are holy. Splash their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.

• Numbers 18:17

But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

• Deuteronomy 15:23

Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.

• Deuteronomy 19:6

As for the title, the expression “blood on the carpet” refers to serious trouble.  Let’s say that the company needs to make some tough decisions and going into a staff meeting, you know that there are people for one thing and many people against that thing.  Each option had people on both sides willing to fight for or against.  As the people leave the meeting that ran hours longer than usual, the secretary might ask her boss, “Well, is there much blood on the carpet?” – meaning that if knives had been available, the argument might have gotten seriously physical.

The word “blood” is in the NIV 392 times, although 28 times as part of bloodshed.  These questions relate to Bible verses containing “blood.”

As a hint, the questions are in biblical order and only two questions from the New Testament, the last use of “blood” in the Gospels and the last use of “blood” in the Bible.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	God says to this person, “Your brother’s blood cries out.”  Whose blood and who is God talking to? (1st reference to blood in the Bible)
2	In the second reference to blood in the Bible, God says as part of a covenant that if someone sheds blood, his blood will be shed.  Who is God making a covenant with?
3	Who is the first person to use the phrase “flesh and blood” in the Bible, referring to his closest relative, Eliezer of Damascus?
4	In the second uses of the phrase “flesh and blood”, who told whom that working for free wasn’t right and he let the young man work toward a wanted prize?  Who used the phrase? To whom was he talking? And “who” was the wanted prize?
5	His brothers wanted to kill him, but they placed him in a cistern. One brother intended to come back later to rescue his brother and he suggested to the other brothers to not shed his blood.  Whose life was spared by whom?
6	In Israel’s (Jacob’s) blessings of each of his sons, he says of this son that he is a lion’s cub, the scepter will never leave him, and his garments will be washed in wine, his robe dipped in the blood of grapes.  Which son?
7	Moses was on his way to Egypt as God had commanded, but God suddenly got angry. Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and cut away her son’s foreskin.  What did she say Moses was to her, using the word “blood”?
8	What did the spies in Jericho promise about the protection of this person’s family regarding “blood” and referring to whether they were inside or outside of the house?
9	In the last reference to “blood” in the Gospels, a soldier uses what to cause an issue of blood and water from Jesus’ side?
10	In the return of Jesus, what does He wear that is dipped in blood?

For a big hint, one of the questions gives the answer away to one of the other questions.  In an Old Testament prophecy-not presented as “prophecy” but you know that is what it is-someone makes a reference about the offspring of someone else regarding blood, but not the blood of a human.  Then, the same mental image becomes literal later on, except that this is probably human blood.

I know, I know, I know.  A cardinal rule in writing an examination is that the details of one question should never give away the answer to another question on the examination.  But there is a reason here.

Jesus’ blood was shed as an atonement for our sins; Exodus 30:10 (above) tells us that.  Jesus introduced the sacrament of communion on the night He was betrayed.  He used bread to represent His body and wine to represent His blood.  Thus, this Old Testament “prophecy” ties a figurative use for “blood” with both a literal use of “blood” and part of holy communion.  While some denominations think the wine literally turns to blood, most denominations do not.  With these verses tied together, it works either way.

But then, dipping the robe in blood is a reminder to Judah, since it was Judah’s idea to sell Joseph into slavery and then cover up their deceit by dipping Joseph’s coat into blood.  All of these Old Testament symbols pointing to a descendant of Judah who would shed His blood for our sins.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	God says to this person, “Your brother’s blood cries out.”  Whose blood and who is God talking to? (1st reference to blood in the Bible)	Genesis 4:10
2	In the second reference to blood in the Bible, God says as part of a covenant that if someone sheds blood, his blood will be shed.  Who is God making a covenant with?	Genesis 9:6
3	Who is the first person to use the phrase “flesh and blood” in the Bible, referring to his closest relative, Eliezer of Damascus?	Genesis 15:4
4	In the second uses of the phrase “flesh and blood”, who told whom that working for free wasn’t right and he let the young man work toward a wanted prize.  Who used the phrase? To whom was he talking? And “who” was the wanted prize?	Genesis 29:14
5	His brothers wanted to kill him, but they placed him in a cistern. One brother intended to come back later to rescue his brother and he suggested to the other brothers to not shed his blood.  Whose life was spared by whom?	Genesis 37:22
6	In Israel’s (Jacob’s) blessings of each of this sons, he says of this son that he is a lion’s cub, the scepter will never leave him, and his garments will be washed in wine, his robe dipped in the blood of grapes.  Which son?	Genesis 49:11
7	Moses was on his way to Egypt as God had commanded, but God suddenly got angry. Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and cut away her son’s foreskin.  What did she say Moses was to her, using the word “blood”?	Exodus 4:25
8	What did the spies in Jericho promise about the protection of this person’s family regarding “blood” and referring to whether they were inside or outside of the house?	Joshua 2:19
9	In the last reference to “blood” in the Gospels, a soldier uses what to cause an issue of blood and water from Jesus’ side?	John 19:34
10	In the return of Jesus, what does He wear that is dipped in blood?	Revelation 19:13

When my wife spent several days in the hospital, being released two weeks and a day ago today (as of when this comes out), I went into the waiting room for surgeries at the hospital while my wife had a colonoscopy.  I needed to be there when the doctor provided his report (with my wife still drifting in and out of anesthesia).  The doctor found nothing wrong, but while waiting for that non-answer to why did my wife have a GI bleed, I prayed for an inspiration for the next quiz, since I was away from my usual stack of reference books.

While in prayer, I kept getting the thought of why I was there waiting.  I doubted if the Bible mentioned the colon or colonoscopy, but the Bible should have a few references to the word “blood”.  If it were not for my wife’s GI bleed, I would not have been there waiting.

I had the Biblegateway app on my tablet.  I had written four questions and found what I wanted to write for the fifth question when the hospital volunteer started mispronouncing and misspelling my name.  My wife was still asleep, but I could go join her and talk to the nurses before the doctor came by.

They released my wife from the hospital.  They had not treated her for the GI bleed.  They were waiting for a test result that would tell them in what way to treat her.  Only one “problem.”  My wife quit bleeding.  Which brings me to a point I made a day or two ago, but I will reword it a little bit.

Doctors continue to do tests, while God has already performed a miracle.  In this case, healing my wife.

Please forgive me for repeating a quiz about “blood.”  The one last year has a few similar questions, but mostly new ones.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	God says to this person, “Your brother’s blood cries out.”  Whose blood and who is God talking to? (1st reference to blood in the Bible)	Genesis 4:10	Abel’s blood, shed by Cain
2	In the second reference to blood in the Bible, God says as part of a covenant that if someone sheds blood, his blood will be shed.  Who is God making a covenant with?	Genesis 9:6	Noah
3	Who is the first person to use the phrase “flesh and blood” in the Bible, referring to his closest relative, Eliezer of Damascus?	Genesis 15:4	Abram when God promised to make of him a great nation, but Sarai was barren.
4	In the second uses of the phrase “flesh and blood”, who told whom that working for free wasn’t right and he let the young man work toward a wanted prize.  Who used the phrase? To whom was he talking? And “who” was the wanted prize?	Genesis 29:14	Laban told this to Jacob. Jacob wanted to marry Rachel, but was tricked into marrying Leah instead. For seven years wages.
5	His brothers wanted to kill him, but they placed him in a cistern. One brother intended to come back later to rescue his brother and he suggested to the other brothers to not shed his blood.  Whose life was spared by whom?	Genesis 37:22	Reuben spared Joseph’s life, just to leave and have Judah decide that selling Joseph as a slave would be a better idea.
6	In Israel’s (Jacob’s) blessings of each of this sons, he says of this son that he is a lion’s cub, the scepter will never leave him, and his garments will be washed in wine, his robe dipped in the blood of grapes.  Which son?	Genesis 49:11	Judah
7	Moses was on his way to Egypt as God had commanded, but God suddenly got angry. Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and cut away her son’s foreskin.  What did she say Moses was to her, using the word “blood”?	Exodus 4:25	You are the bridegroom of blood to me.  Bridegroom of blood meaning circumcision.
8	What did the spies in Jericho promise about the protection of this person’s family regarding “blood” and referring to whether they were inside or outside of the house?	Joshua 2:19	If a relative was inside the house and they were harmed, their blood would be on the spies’ heads, but if outside the house, their blood would be upon Rahab’s head.
9	In the last reference to “blood” in the Gospels, a soldier uses what to cause an issue of blood and water from Jesus’ side?	John 19:34	A spear
10	In the return of Jesus, what does He wear that is dipped in blood?	Revelation 19:13	His robe, See Genesis 49:11.  In the blessing of Judah, his robe will be dipped in the blood of the grape.  This ties the shedding of Jesus’ blood to Judah and to the sacrament of communion.

There is a rap song about Blood on the Carpet, but we can skip that.  And pardon me again, but the idea of repeating the songs from last April’s blood quiz was too good to pass up.

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video.  Here is the Ft Sean Carter, David Gentiles, and Melanie Tierce, singing Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb.

And here is Redeemed, with the Gaither Homecoming Crowd, and solo lines by Terry Blackwood, Cynthia Clawson, Steve Amerson, Sue Dodge, and Guy Penrod.

And here is Carrie Underwood singing, Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.

And here is Gateway Worship, featuring Kari Jobe, singing Oh, the Blood of Jesus.

And here is Acapeldridge, singing There is Power in the Blood.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.