What kind of fruit did the woman in the garden take from the tree and eat?
Ten men were healed, and one of them turned back to give thanks. What did Jesus ask about the others?
I stood in the tent door and heard a visitor say that I would have a son within the year. I was old, and I laughed to myself. Who am I?
Ruth and Boaz had a son named Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of a king. How was that king related to Ruth?
By day I was a pillar of cloud that showed the way. By night I was a pillar of something else, and I gave light. What was I by night?
Two women each said that one baby was hers, and there was no witness. How did the king find out which of them was the mother?
I am a city. The priests blew the trumpets, the people shouted with a great shout, and my wall fell down flat. What city am I?
A meal began with seven pieces of food, five of one kind and two of another. About five thousand men ate, besides women and children, and twelve baskets were left over. What were the two kinds of food?
Abraham looked up and saw me behind him, caught in the thicket by my horns. What am I?
I lay on the ground in the wilderness when the dew had gone. I was white, like coriander seed, and I tasted like wafers with honey. What am I?
These riddles from the Bible are for a youth group, a Sunday school class or a family table. Each answer names its book, chapter and verse, read in the World English Bible, so anyone can look it up.
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Bible riddles: who am I, and what am I
Who am I lets a person speak, from Noah and Ruth to Eutychus, who fell asleep in a window. What am I does the same for things, animals and places: manna, a rooster, the pool with five porches.
Hard Bible riddles and brain teasers
Brain teasers has Samson's riddle, trick questions and sums from the numbers in the text, such as how many men Gideon sent home. The Hard level keeps to lesser-known names: Lydia, Aquila, Bethesda, Patmos.
Let teams race to find the verse before you open the answer. The first to find it reads it aloud.
Say before the Funny set that these are puns, so nobody searches for a verse that solves one.
Questions and answers
What is the riddle in the Bible?
Samson sets one at his wedding feast in Judges 14:14: "Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness." The answer is honey that bees had made in the body of a lion.
What is a funny Bible riddle?
Which man in the Bible had no parents? Joshua, the son of Nun. The Funny set has more clean puns like it, each tied to the verse it plays on. They are jokes, not teaching.
What are some easy Bible riddles for a youth group?
Choose the Easy level: Noah, Jonah, Daniel, the burning bush, the lost sheep. Each can be guessed from a story most children have heard, and the answer names its verse.
A voice called my name in the night. Three times I ran to the priest and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He had not called. Who am I?Answer: Samuel. Eli understood at the third call who was calling the boy (1 Samuel 2:11 and 3:4-8).
An angel told me not to be afraid, and said I would have a son and should name him Jesus. Who am I?Answer: Mary. The angel spoke to her by name (Luke 1:30-31).
I asked for a sign with a fleece of wool. One morning the fleece was wet with dew and the ground was dry. The next morning the fleece was dry and the ground was wet. Who am I?Answer: Gideon. He wrung a bowl full of water out of the fleece the first time (Judges 6:36-40).
I came from Pontus, and my wife was Priscilla. Paul stayed and worked with us, because all three of us were tent makers by trade. Who am I?Answer: Aquila. Paul met the couple in Corinth (Acts 18:1-3).
I came in from the field famished, and I sold my birthright to my brother for bread and lentil stew. Who am I?Answer: Esau. His brother Jacob had boiled the stew (Genesis 25:29-34).
I could have asked for long life or riches, and I asked for an understanding heart. I spoke three thousand proverbs, and my songs numbered one thousand five. Who am I?Answer: Solomon. His request for understanding pleased the Lord (1 Kings 3:9-11 and 4:32).
I hid two men under the stalks of flax on my roof. Later I tied a line of scarlet thread in my window. Who am I?Answer: Rahab. The men were the spies sent to Jericho (Joshua 2:1, 2:6 and 2:18).
I lived beside a brook and drank from it. Every morning and every evening, ravens brought me bread and meat. Who am I?Answer: Elijah. He stayed by the brook Cherith (1 Kings 17:1-6).
I prayed for a son and promised to give him back. After I did, I made him a little robe and brought it to him every year. Who am I?Answer: Hannah. Her son was Samuel (1 Samuel 1:11, 1:20 and 2:19).
I sat in a window while Paul talked until midnight and then talked longer still. I sank into a deep sleep and fell from the third floor. Who am I?Answer: Eutychus. Acts goes on to say that he was brought in alive (Acts 20:7-12).
I spent a night in a den of lions. In the morning I was lifted out, and no kind of harm was found on me. Who am I?Answer: Daniel. He said the lions' mouths had been shut (Daniel 6:22-23).
I spent three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, and I prayed from inside it. Who am I?Answer: Jonah. He prayed out of the belly of the fish (Jonah 1:17 and 2:1).
I stepped out of a boat and walked on the water. Then I saw how strong the wind was, and I began to sink. Who am I?Answer: Peter. He was walking toward Jesus and cried out to be saved (Matthew 14:28-30).
I stood in the tent door and heard a visitor say that I would have a son within the year. I was old, and I laughed to myself. Who am I?Answer: Sarah. She and Abraham were both well advanced in age (Genesis 18:10-12).
I struck my donkey three times because she kept turning off the road. Then she spoke and asked me what she had done to deserve it. Who am I?Answer: Balaam. The donkey had seen an angel standing in the way (Numbers 22:23-33).
I told my mother-in-law: "Where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay." Who am I?Answer: Ruth. She said it to Naomi, who had urged her to turn back (Ruth 1:16).
I was a king, and I was driven away from people. I ate grass like oxen until my hair had grown like eagles' feathers and my nails like birds' claws. Who am I?Answer: Nebuchadnezzar. A voice from the sky had just told the king that the kingdom had departed from him (Daniel 4:31 and 4:33).
I was a Pharisee and a ruler, and I came to Jesus by night to talk with him. Who am I?Answer: Nicodemus. He called Jesus a teacher who had come from God (John 3:1-2).
I was a prophetess and the sister of Aaron. I took a tambourine in my hand, and all the women went out after me with tambourines and dances. Who am I?Answer: Miriam. It follows the crossing of the sea (Exodus 15:20).
I was a prophetess, and I judged Israel from under a palm tree that carried my name. Barak would not go to battle unless I went with him. Who am I?Answer: Deborah. She lived under Deborah's palm tree, and she went with Barak (Judges 4:4-9).
I was a queen, and going to the king without being called was against the law. I went anyway and said: "If I perish, I perish." Who am I?Answer: Esther. She first asked her people to fast for three days (Esther 2:17 and 4:16).
I was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, and I listened to Paul. Who am I?Answer: Lydia. Acts calls her a seller of purple who worshiped God (Acts 16:14).
I was close to Damascus when a light from the sky shone around me. I fell to the ground, and for three days I could not see. Who am I?Answer: Saul, who is also called Paul. He was led into Damascus by the hand (Acts 9:3-9 and 13:9).
I was cup bearer to a king. I went home and said, "Come, let's build up the wall of Jerusalem," and the wall was finished in fifty-two days. Who am I?Answer: Nehemiah. The book that carries his name tells it in his own words (Nehemiah 1:1, 1:11, 2:17 and 6:15).
I was rich, and I was short. To see over the crowd I ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree. Who am I?Answer: Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector who wanted to see Jesus pass by (Luke 19:2-4).
I was six hundred years old when the flood came. By then I had built a ship of gopher wood, three hundred cubits long, with a door in its side. Who am I?Answer: Noah. He was told to build the ship and was six hundred years old when the flood came (Genesis 6:14-16 and 7:6).
I was the youngest of eight brothers, and I was out keeping the sheep when a prophet came to our house. He passed over my seven brothers and poured oil on me. Who am I?Answer: David. Samuel anointed him in the middle of his brothers (1 Samuel 16:10-13).
I watched my master go up by a whirlwind. I picked up the mantle that fell from him, struck the river with it, and the waters divided. Who am I?Answer: Elisha. The mantle was Elijah's, and the river was the Jordan (2 Kings 2:5 and 2:11-14).
I wrestled with a man until the breaking of the day. I left with a limp and a new name: Israel. Who am I?Answer: Jacob. He would not let go until he was blessed (Genesis 32:24-31).
My clothing was made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around my waist. My food was locusts and wild honey. Who am I?Answer: John the Baptist. The World English Bible calls him John the Baptizer (Matthew 3:1 and 3:4).
My father made me a tunic of many colors, and my brothers sold me for twenty pieces of silver. Who am I?Answer: Joseph. The merchants who bought him took him to Egypt (Genesis 37:3, 37:28 and 45:4).
My friends said they had seen the Lord. I answered that I would not believe until I saw the print of the nails in his hands. Who am I?Answer: Thomas. He was not with the others when Jesus came (John 20:24-25).
My mother hid me for three months. Then she laid me in a papyrus basket among the reeds by the river, and a king's daughter opened it and heard me cry. Who am I?Answer: Moses. Pharaoh's daughter found the basket in the reeds (Exodus 2:2-6).
My sister sat and listened to our guest while I was distracted with much serving. I asked him to tell her to help me. Who am I?Answer: Martha. Her sister Mary sat at Jesus' feet (Luke 10:39-40).
No razor had ever touched my head. When seven locks of my hair were shaved off while I slept, my strength left me. Who am I?Answer: Samson. He had told Delilah that his strength would go if he was shaved (Judges 16:17-19).
We are three friends who walked out of a burning furnace. Our hair was not singed, and not even the smell of fire was on us. Who are we?Answer: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. The king himself called them out of the fire (Daniel 3:26-27).
When I was chosen as king, nobody could find me: I had hidden myself among the baggage. When I stood up, I was taller than any of the people from my shoulders upward. Who am I?Answer: Saul. He was the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Samuel 10:21-23).
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A saying of Jesus sends me through a needle's eye. What animal am I?Answer: A camel. He said it would be easier than for a rich man to enter God's Kingdom (Matthew 19:24).
A strong east wind blew on me all night. By morning I was divided, and people walked through my middle on dry ground with a wall of water on each side. What am I?Answer: The Red Sea. The song in the next chapter names the sea (Exodus 14:21-22 and 15:4).
A wise man built his house on me. The rain came down, the floods came and the winds blew, and the house did not fall. What am I?Answer: The rock. Jesus told it about people who hear his words and do them (Matthew 7:24-25).
Abraham looked up and saw me behind him, caught in the thicket by my horns. What am I?Answer: A ram. Abraham offered the ram in place of his son (Genesis 22:13).
By day I was a pillar of cloud that showed the way. By night I was a pillar of something else, and I gave light. What was I by night?Answer: A pillar of fire. It let the people travel by day and by night (Exodus 13:21).
The fingers of a hand wrote me on the plaster of a palace wall, near the lamp stand, while the king watched. I am four words. What am I?Answer: The writing on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. Daniel read the writing to the king (Daniel 5:5 and 5:25).
I am a chest of acacia wood, overlaid with pure gold inside and outside. I have four gold rings, and two poles go through them to carry me. What am I?Answer: The ark of the covenant. Exodus gives its measurements, and Numbers calls it the ark of the covenant (Exodus 25:10-14 and Numbers 10:33).
I am a city. The priests blew the trumpets, the people shouted with a great shout, and my wall fell down flat. What city am I?Answer: Jericho. The people then went up into the city (Joshua 6:1 and 6:20).
I am a little member, and I boast great things. Every kind of animal has been tamed, but nobody can tame me. What am I?Answer: The tongue. James compares it to the small rudder of a big ship (James 3:4-8).
I am a place whose name means "The place of a skull." What am I called?Answer: Golgotha. Matthew gives the name and what it means (Matthew 27:33).
I am a pool in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, and I have five porches. A man who had been sick for thirty-eight years lay beside me. What is my name?Answer: Bethesda. John gives the name in Hebrew (John 5:2-5).
I am a river. Naaman dipped himself in me seven times, and Jesus came to me from Galilee to be baptized by John. Which river am I?Answer: The Jordan. Both verses name the river (2 Kings 5:9, 5:14 and Matthew 3:13).
I am a town called David's city. Joseph went up to me from Nazareth. What town am I?Answer: Bethlehem. Luke gives both names for the town (Luke 2:4).
I am an island. Paul and everyone on his ship reached my shore after the ship broke up, and only then did they learn my name. What island am I?Answer: Malta. All 276 people on board came safely to land (Acts 27:37, 27:44 and 28:1).
I am one of a hundred. I was lost, and my owner left the other ninety-nine in the wilderness to look for me. What am I?Answer: The lost sheep. Jesus told it as a parable (Luke 15:4).
I am one of ten coins. My owner lost me, lit a lamp, swept the house, and called her friends and neighbors to rejoice when she found me. What am I?Answer: The lost coin. The World English Bible calls it a drachma coin (Luke 15:8-9).
I am smaller than all seeds. Sown in a field, I grow into a tree, and the birds come and lodge in my branches. What am I?Answer: A grain of mustard seed. Jesus used it as a picture of the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 13:31-32).
I am the island where John was when a loud voice told him to write what he saw in a book. What island am I?Answer: Patmos. He names the island in the first chapter of Revelation (Revelation 1:9-11).
I am the place where Jesus went to pray. He asked his friends to stay and watch, and he came back and found them sleeping. What am I called?Answer: Gethsemane. He asked Peter whether they could not watch for one hour (Matthew 26:36-40).
I am where a firstborn son was laid, wrapped in bands of cloth, because there was no room in the inn. What am I?Answer: A manger. The World English Bible calls it a feeding trough (Luke 2:7).
I came up over Jonah and shaded his head, and he was exceedingly glad of me. At dawn the next day a worm chewed me, and I withered. What am I?Answer: A vine. The World English Bible says a vine, and the King James Version says a gourd (Jonah 4:6-7).
I crowed, and Peter remembered what he had been told: that before I did, he would deny his friend three times. What am I?Answer: A rooster. Peter went out and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:74-75).
I lay on the ground in the wilderness when the dew had gone. I was white, like coriander seed, and I tasted like wafers with honey. What am I?Answer: Manna. The house of Israel gave it that name (Exodus 16:14 and 16:31).
I was set in the cloud as the sign of a covenant with the earth. You see me when a cloud comes over. What am I?Answer: The rainbow. It is the sign given after the flood (Genesis 9:13-14).
I was the first bird Noah sent out of the ship. I went back and forth until the waters were dried up. What am I?Answer: A raven. Noah sent the raven out at the end of forty days (Genesis 8:6-7).
Lot's wife looked back, and she became me. What am I?Answer: A pillar of salt. One verse tells it (Genesis 19:26).
Moses turned aside to look at me, because I burned with fire and was not burned up. What am I?Answer: The burning bush. Moses called it a great sight (Exodus 3:2-3).
My builders wanted my top to reach the sky. Then their one language was confused, they could not understand each other, and they stopped building. What am I?Answer: The tower of Babel. The city took the name Babel from the confusion (Genesis 11:4-9).
Noah sent me out of the ship, and I came back to him at evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in my mouth. What am I?Answer: A dove. The leaf told Noah that the waters had gone down (Genesis 8:10-11).
Noah's ship came to rest on me in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day. What mountains am I?Answer: The mountains of Ararat. Genesis gives the month and the day (Genesis 8:4).
Peter was told to cast a hook, take up the first fish that came up and open its mouth, where he would find me. What am I?Answer: A coin. The World English Bible calls it a stater coin (Matthew 17:24-27).
Proverbs sends the sluggard to watch me. I have no chief, overseer or ruler, and still I gather my food at harvest. What am I?Answer: The ant. The proverb says: consider her ways, and be wise (Proverbs 6:6-8).
Thrown down before Pharaoh, I became a serpent. Left overnight in a tent, I sprouted, blossomed and bore ripe almonds. What am I?Answer: Aaron's rod. Both verses speak of the rod of Aaron (Exodus 7:10 and Numbers 17:8).
Two of us are sold for one small coin. Even so, Jesus said, not one of us falls to the ground apart from the Father's will. What are we?Answer: Sparrows. The coin in the World English Bible is an assarion (Matthew 10:29).
We came up out of the river and covered the land of Egypt. We got into the houses, the bedrooms, the beds, the ovens and the kneading troughs. What are we?Answer: Frogs. Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt (Exodus 8:3-6).
We do not toil, and we do not spin. Yet even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of us. What are we?Answer: The lilies of the field. Jesus said it in a teaching about worry over clothing (Matthew 6:28-29).
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A man who needed work opened his Bible and cheered up at once. What had he found?Answer: Job. A pun: the book of Job is spelled like a job (Job 1:1).
At what time of day was Adam made?Answer: A little before Eve. A pun: Eve sounds like the eve of the day. The man was formed first (Genesis 2:7, 2:21-22 and 3:20).
Bildad was only shoe-height. Which disciple was smaller still?Answer: Peter. A pun: he slept on his watch. Jesus asked him, "Couldn't you watch with me for one hour?" (Matthew 26:40).
How did Jonah feel when the huge fish swallowed him?Answer: Down in the mouth. A pun: to be down in the mouth is to be glum, and Jonah went down a mouth (Jonah 1:17).
How did Moses cut the sea in half?Answer: With a sea-saw. A pun on seesaw. In Exodus he stretched out his hand, and a strong east wind divided the waters (Exodus 14:21).
How does Moses make his coffee?Answer: Hebrews it. A pun: Hebrews sounds like he brews. The baby Moses is called one of the Hebrews' children (Exodus 2:6).
What did Adam say on the day before Christmas?Answer: "It's Christmas, Eve." A pun: the man called his wife Eve (Genesis 3:20).
What is the best way to study the third Gospel?Answer: You Luke into it. A pun: Luke sounds like look. Its writer says he traced everything accurately from the first (Luke 1:3).
What kind of lights did Noah have on the ship?Answer: Floodlights. A pun: the flood was forty days on the earth (Genesis 7:17).
What kind of man was Boaz before he married?Answer: Ruthless. A pun: before the wedding he was without Ruth (Ruth 4:13).
When is tennis first played in the Bible?Answer: When Joseph served in Pharaoh's court. A pun: a tennis player serves on a court. Joseph was thirty when he stood before Pharaoh (Genesis 41:46).
Where did the people of Israel keep their money?Answer: In the banks of the Jordan. A pun: the Jordan overflows all its banks at harvest time (Joshua 3:15).
Where is baseball in the Bible?Answer: In the big inning, and the prodigal son made a home run. A pun: "In the beginning" opens Genesis, and the son came home while his father ran to meet him (Genesis 1:1 and Luke 15:20).
Where is the first math homework in the Bible?Answer: In Genesis: "Be fruitful, multiply". A pun on multiplying (Genesis 1:28).
Which book of the Bible is best at counting?Answer: Numbers. A pun on its name. The book opens with a census (Numbers 1:2).
Which man in the Bible had no parents?Answer: Joshua, the son of Nun. A pun: Nun sounds like none (Joshua 1:1).
Which man in the Bible seems to speak on the day he was born?Answer: Job. A joke on the wording: Job "cursed the day of his birth," long after it (Job 3:1).
Which verse belongs on the door of a church nursery?Answer: "We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed." A joke: the letter says it about something else entirely (1 Corinthians 15:51).
Which verse would a dentist hang on the office wall?Answer: "Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." A joke: the psalm says exactly that (Psalm 81:10).
Who broke all ten commandments at once?Answer: Moses. A joke: he threw the stone tablets down and broke them (Exodus 32:19).
Who was the best banker in the Bible?Answer: Pharaoh's daughter. A pun: she went down to the bank of the river and drew out a little prophet, which sounds like profit (Exodus 2:3, 2:5, 2:10 and Deuteronomy 34:10).
Who was the fastest runner in the Bible?Answer: Adam. A pun: he was first in the human race (Genesis 2:7).
Who was the only one sorry to see the prodigal son come home?Answer: The fattened calf. A joke: the father ordered it killed for the feast (Luke 15:22-24).
Who was the shortest man in the Bible?Answer: Bildad the Shuhite. A pun: Shuhite sounds like shoe-height. He was one of Job's three friends (Job 2:11).
Why did Noah do so little fishing from the ship?Answer: He had only two worms. A joke: two of every sort came aboard, creeping things too (Genesis 6:19-20).
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A meal began with seven pieces of food, five of one kind and two of another. About five thousand men ate, besides women and children, and twelve baskets were left over. What were the two kinds of food?Answer: Loaves and fish. Five loaves and two fish (Matthew 14:17-21).
Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac was born. Isaac was sixty when his twin sons were born. How old was Abraham when he became the grandfather of twins?Answer: 160. 100 and 60. Abraham lived to 175, so he was alive to see them (Genesis 21:5, 25:26 and 25:7).
The army was told to march around the city once a day for six days, and seven times on the seventh day. How many times around is that in all?Answer: Thirteen. Six and seven. The city was Jericho (Joshua 6:1 and 6:3-4).
David chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his bag. He took out one and slung it. How many stones were left in the bag?Answer: Four. Five in the bag, one in the sling (1 Samuel 17:40 and 17:49).
Gideon started with thirty-two thousand men. Twenty-two thousand went home, and of those who stayed he kept only the three hundred who lapped water from their hands. How many men went home in all?Answer: 31,700. 22,000 went home first, and then 9,700 of the 10,000 who remained (Judges 7:3-7).
How many animals of every sort did Moses bring into the ship?Answer: None. It was Noah who was told to build the ship (Genesis 6:13-14 and 6:19).
How many wise men came from the east to see the young child?Answer: The text gives no number. Matthew says only "wise men," and names three gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh (Matthew 2:1 and 2:11).
In Genesis a brother is sold for a number of pieces of silver. In Matthew a different number of pieces of silver is weighed out to hand a man over. What is the difference between the two numbers?Answer: Ten. Twenty pieces for Joseph, and thirty weighed out for Judas (Genesis 37:28 and Matthew 26:14-15).
In Joseph's dream, the sun, the moon and some stars bowed down to him. How many lights in the sky bowed down in all?Answer: Thirteen. The sun, the moon and eleven stars (Genesis 37:9).
In Pharaoh's dream, seven thin cows ate seven fat cows and looked no fatter. What did Joseph say the dream meant?Answer: Seven years of plenty, then seven years of famine. The famine would make the years of plenty forgotten (Genesis 41:20-21 and 41:29-30).
In the first chapter of Genesis, there is light on the first day. On which day are the two great lights made, one to rule the day and one to rule the night?Answer: The fourth day. Light comes on day one, and the greater and lesser lights on day four (Genesis 1:3-5 and 1:14-19).
It rained on the earth for this many days and nights. Moses was on the mountain this many days and nights. Goliath came out and showed himself for this many days. What is the number?Answer: Forty. Jesus also fasted forty days and forty nights (Genesis 7:12, Exodus 24:18, 1 Samuel 17:16 and Matthew 4:2).
Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him like a few days. Then he was told to serve as long again. How many years is that in all?Answer: Fourteen. Seven years, and then seven more (Genesis 29:20 and 29:27-30).
Jacob told Pharaoh that he was one hundred thirty years old. After that he lived in Egypt for seventeen years. How long was his whole life?Answer: 147 years. 130 and 17, and Genesis gives the total too (Genesis 47:9 and 47:28).
Many rich people put much money into the treasury. A poor widow put in two small coins. Who gave more, and why?Answer: The widow. Jesus said so: the others gave out of their abundance, and she gave all that she had to live on (Mark 12:41-44).
Methuselah lived 969 years, and then he died. His father never did. How can that be?Answer: His father was Enoch, whom God took. Genesis says Enoch "was not found, for God took him," and Hebrews says he was taken away so that he would not see death (Genesis 5:21, 5:23-24, 5:27 and Hebrews 11:5).
Noah went into the ship with his wife, his three sons and the three wives of his sons. How many people is that?Answer: Eight. One of the letters of Peter counts them too: eight souls (Genesis 7:13 and 1 Peter 3:20).
One animal speaks in Genesis, and one speaks in Numbers. Which two animals are they?Answer: The serpent in the garden and Balaam's donkey. The serpent speaks to the woman, and the donkey speaks to Balaam (Genesis 3:1 and Numbers 22:28).
Ruth and Boaz had a son named Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of a king. How was that king related to Ruth?Answer: David was her great-grandson. Ruth, then Obed, then Jesse, then David (Ruth 4:13 and 4:17).
Samson set this riddle at his wedding feast: "Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness." What had he seen?Answer: Honey in the body of a lion. The guests answered: "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" (Judges 14:8-9, 14:14 and 14:18).
The springs of water at Elim, the stones taken up out of the middle of the Jordan, the apostles, and the gates in the wall of the city in Revelation: what one number counts each of them?Answer: Twelve. Twelve springs, twelve stones, twelve apostles and twelve gates (Exodus 15:27, Joshua 4:8, Matthew 10:2 and Revelation 21:12).
Ten men were healed, and one of them turned back to give thanks. What did Jesus ask about the others?Answer: "Where are the nine?" Ten less one. The one who came back was a Samaritan (Luke 17:12-17).
Three men were thrown, bound, into the middle of the furnace. The king looked in and counted the men walking in the fire. How many did he count?Answer: Four. He said: "Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed." (Daniel 3:23-25).
Two women each said that one baby was hers, and there was no witness. How did the king find out which of them was the mother?Answer: He called for a sword. He ordered the child divided in two. One woman begged him to let the other have the child alive, and by that the king knew she was the mother (1 Kings 3:24-27).
What kind of fruit did the woman in the garden take from the tree and eat?Answer: The text does not say. Genesis says only "its fruit" and names no kind (Genesis 3:6).
Which man in Genesis died without ever having been born?Answer: Adam. He was formed from the dust of the ground, and he died at 930 (Genesis 2:7 and 5:5).