Answer: Shiphrah and Puah.
Exodus 1:15–17
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1. What were the names of the two Hebrew midwives who feared God and disobeyed Pharaoh’s order to kill the baby boys? 2. What did Moses’ mother use to coat the basket that held baby Moses before placing it among the reeds of the Nile? Answer: Papyrus and pitch. Exodus 2:3 3. What was the name of Moses’ first son, and what did the name mean? Answer: Gershom — “I have been a foreigner there.” Exodus 2:22 4. When God first appeared to Moses in the burning bush, what mountain was Moses on? Answer: Mount Horeb. Exodus 3:1 5. What were the names of the two magicians who opposed Moses before Pharaoh? Answer: Jannes and Jambres. Exodus 7:11; 2 Timothy 3:8 6. During which plague did Pharaoh’s magicians fail to replicate the miracle and confess, “This is the finger of God”? Answer: The plague of gnats. Exodus 8:18–19 7. What specific instruction did God give about the bread manna gathered on the sixth day? Answer: Gather twice as much for two days; none on the seventh. Exodus 16:5 8. What was the name of the place where Moses struck the rock and water came out, and what did the name mean? Answer: Massah and Meribah — “testing” and “quarreling.” Exodus 17:7 9. Who held up Moses’ hands during Israel’s battle with Amalek? Answer: Aaron and Hur. Exodus 17:12 10. What materials were used for the ephod of the high priest? Answer: Gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen. Exodus 28:6–8 |
