Bible crossword puzzle: Genesis and Exodus
Based on material in chapters four and five in Discovering the Bible by Alex
Varughese
Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book by
Varughese?
ACROSS
- 2 Name given to the first man
- 4 Isaac's son who had 12 sons
- 5 The place where God made a covenant with His people, promising to treat them
as a prized possession, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
- 8 God's personal name; it signifies His "being-there-with-us" in all of life's
circumstances
- 9 A tent-like structure that God instructed the Israelites to build as a portable
worship center and as a visible and tangible evidence of the reality of His abiding presence
- 12 Jacob's uncle and father-in-law
- 13 Adam and Eve's third son, ancestor of Noah
- 14 Son of Abraham and Sarah whose birth fulfilled divine promises
- 16 The younger of Jacob's wives
- 19 Moses' brother who was consecrated and ordained along with his sons to
minister in the Tabernacle (this name is not mentioned in our text but in the Bible readings)
- 20 The oldest of Jacob's two wives
- 21 Hero of the Genesis flood story
DOWN
- 1 The man God asked to lead His people out of Egyptian slavery
- 2 First murder victim
- 3 A ritual in which the blood of a sacrificial lamb provided protection for the
Israelites
- 4 Jacob's special son who was sold into Egyptian slavery by his own brothers
- 6 A son born to Hagar, servant to Abraham and Sarah
- 7 A formal and legally binding contract between two parties that is a key element to
understanding Scripture
- 10 God promised in a covenant that this man and his descendants would be a
blessing to "all peoples on earth."
- 11 Servant of Sarah and mother of Ishmael
- 15 First murderer who killed his own brother
- 17 He sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a bowl of stew
- 18 Abraham's wife
- 20 Abraham's nephew
This crossword puzzle was created for use in the course Introduction to Biblical Literature.
The words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the
Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by what is now called The
Foundry.
-- Howard Culbertson,
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