All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands.

• Exodus 36:8

The west end was fifty cubits wide and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases, with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

• Exodus 38:12

for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels;.

• Leviticus 27:5

Kain, Gibeah and Timnah—ten towns and their villages.

• Joshua 15:57

Manasseh’s share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

• Joshua 17:5

This quiz is about the numbers one through ten.  There is a question, all from the Old Testament, regarding verses that contain these numbers.  I did not use ordinals, as in tenth, or I could have had a question about the tithe.  I did not use questions about verses that contained a larger number, like ten thousand, but something might happen ten times, as an example.

The questions are in numerical order.  Umm.  Meaning one, two, three …

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What becomes one flesh?
2	Who were the nations or the sons names when Lot’s daughters tricked him into making love to them?
3	Who were Noah’s Three Sons?
4	Who said that he saw four men in the fiery furnace when they had only thrown Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the furnace?
5	When the brothers ate at the Egyptian governor’s table, on their second visit to buy food, who got five times more the portion of food than anyone else?
6	Which wife of Jacob bore him six sons?
7	Who married Zipporah, one of seven daughters of a Midian priest?
8	What must be done to a son who is eight days old according to an Abrahamic covenant with God?
9	During a long festival, on the fifth day of the festival, they offer a sacrifice of nine bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs, but earlier on day two, they offer 12 bulls, and the festival requires the erection of booths or something like that?
10	Who did Jacob claim changed his wages ten times?

A hint:  question nine is a giveaway, but give the official answer instead of what a lot of people called it. 

When you hear someone say that you should count to ten, you are probably like me, it makes you a bit angrier than you already were.  I can count fast so… A hundred?  Nope.  Two, three hundred?  Maybe, by then it just gets silly.

When I used to take my wife to kidney dialysis, I timed the traffic light at the bottom of the hill where I used to work.  On Saturday, it often took two full minutes to cycle back to the green light.  On week days, it was more like 45 seconds.  Odd, I was counting far beyond ten and it seemed to add to the irritation rather than calming me down.  But it told me that they had a variety of timings programmed into that light:  workdays versus weekends, peak hours versus mid-day hours versus nighttime hours.

And thinking of counting to a fairly high number, I have not counted the number of cars in a train in a long time, but after about fifty cars going by, I thought about counting them just to be doing something…

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What becomes one flesh?	Genesis 2:21
2	Who were the nations or the sons names when Lot’s daughters tricked him into making love to them?	Genesis 19:30-38
3	Who were Noah’s Three Sons?	Genesis 6:10
4	Who said that he saw four men in the fiery furnace when they had only thrown Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the furnace?	Daniel 3:25
5	When the brothers ate at the Egyptian governor’s table, on their second visit to buy food, who got five times more the portion of food than anyone else?	Genesis 43:34
6	Which wife of Jacob bore him six sons?	Genesis 30:20
7	Who married Zipporah, one of seven daughters of a Midian priest?	Exodus 2:16-20
8	What must be done to a son who is eight days old according to an Abrahamic covenant with God?	Genesis 17:12
9	During a long festival, on the fifth day of the festival, they offer a sacrifice of nine bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs, but earlier on day two, they offer 12 bulls, and the festival requires the erection of booths or something like that?	Numbers 29:12-26
10	Who did Jacob claim changed his wages ten times?	Genesis 31:7

Elizabeth Barret Browning wrote a sonnet entitled “How Do I love Thee?” and the next line was let me count the ways.  She might not have mentioned any “way” that you could count, but this sonnet was sonnet 43, so someone was counting sonnets.

I heard a stand-up comic quote: “How do I love thee, let me count the ways …  One-two-three-four-five!”

But could I count ten ways that I loved my wife, who passed away six weeks ago?

• Her voice
• Her wit
• Her smile
• The twinkle in her eyes
• Her love for a man just because he was weird
• Her insistence on not being a burden
• Her insistence on keeping her men well-fed
• Her penchant for learning every kind of craft imaginable
• Her apologies when she scheduled having fish on Friday (a family joke since she spent most of her life as an ex-Catholic)
• The way she could talk to someone for five minutes and have every name and birthday of the stranger’s family memorized
• Her ability to know what was in everyone’s hand during a card game (loved if you were her partner)

I know, there are eleven, but the last one was irritating when you played against her, but that did not mean she always won.  It was just hard to beat her.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	What becomes one flesh?	Genesis 2:21	A man and his female wife when they marry
2	Who were the nations or the sons names when Lot’s daughters tricked him into making love to them?	Genesis 19:30-38	Moab (Moabites) and Ben-Ammi (Ammonites)
3	Who were Noah’s Three Sons?	Genesis 6:10	Shem, Ham, Japheth
4	Who said that he saw four men in the fiery furnace when they had only thrown Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the furnace?	Daniel 3:25	King Nebuchadnezzar
5	When the brothers ate at the Egyptian governor’s table, on their second visit to buy food, who got five times more the portion of food than anyone else?	Genesis 43:34	Benjamin
6	Which wife of Jacob bore him six sons?	Genesis 30:20	Leah
7	Who married Zipporah, one of seven daughters of a Midian priest?	Exodus 2:16-20	Moses
8	What must be done to a son who is eight days old according to an Abrahamic covenant with God?	Genesis 17:12	Circumcision
9	During a long festival, on the fifth day of the festival, they offer a sacrifice of nine bulls, 2 rams, and 14 male lambs, but earlier on day two, they offer 12 bulls, and the festival requires the erection of booths or something like that?	Numbers 29:12-26	The Festival of Tabernacles, and the giveaway answer is that some called it the festival of booths.
10	Who did Jacob claim changed his wages ten times?	Genesis 31:7	Laban, his father-in-law

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video.  Here is Colin Buchanan and a bunch of children singing 10, 9, 8, God is Great! 

And here is another children song with children singing The Perfect Ten.  The song by Kathie Hill.

And I promised not to use ten thousand in the questions, but for the songs … Here is David Wesley singing 10,000 Reasons.

And here is the Gaither Homecoming crowd, with a solo by Ernie Haase, singing Ten Thousand Years.

And here is the Collingsworth Family, singing a medley of Ten Thousand Angels/He Looked Beyond my Fault and Saw my Need.

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.