LABAN

Category: Bible CharactersThis Quiz: Laban

1.) Laban went out to meet Abraham’s servant who had come to take his sister to be a wife for Isaac. Who was his sister?      
Leah
Zilpah

Rachael      
Rebekah

2.) What relation was Laban to Jacob

brother
uncle
cousin
They were not related.

3.) Where did Laban live?      
Ur of the Chaldeas
Sodom
Padan-aram
We are not told.

4.) What was the name of Laban’s daughter whom Jacob loved most?      
Rachel
Leah
Zilpah
Bilhah

5.) How long did Jacob serve Laban for Rachel?      
1 year
3 years
7 years
10 years

6.) How did Laban deceive Jacob regarding his wife?      
He gave him Rachel’s maidservant instead.
He did not give him a wife at the end of his servitude.
He gave him Rachael’s older sister instead.
It was a genuine mistake – there was no deceit.

7.) How did Laban explain what he had done?      
You have not worked enough for a daughter, but you can have a servant for a wife.
I was so drunk I did not know what I was doing.
You have not worked hard enough for me to give you any wages.
It is not done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

8.) When Jacob asked Laban if he could return to his own country, what did Laban say?      
Go, and never come to my house again.
Go, and may the God of Israel go with thee.
Tarry until the shearing of the sheep is finished.
Tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.

9.) When did Jacob leave Laban?      
When Laban was worshipping his gods.
When Laban went to shear his sheep.
When Laban’s wife died.
When Laban died.

10.) Rachel had taken the Laban’s household gods, but Laban was not able to find them. Why?      
She had put them in the camel’s furniture and sat on them.
She had given them to her maidservant to hide.
She had hidden them under some sheaves of wheat on the rooftop.
She had put them down the well in a pitcher.

 

  ANSWERS

  1. Rebekah. Genesis 24:29
  2. Uncle Genesis 27:43;29:13
  3.  Padan-aram. Genesis 28:5
  4.  Rachel Genesis 29:20
  5. 7 years Genesis 29:20
  6.   He gave him Rachael’s older sister instead. Genesis 29:24-26
  7.   It is not done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn..Genesis 29:26
  8. Tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.. Genesis 30:25-27
  9.  When Laban went to shear his sheep.. Genesis 31:19,20
  10.  She had put them in the camel’s furniture and sat on them.. Genesis 31:34

Author: Godfrey Gregg