Chapter 9 Self-Quiz

In the Wilderness Numbers

. The Israelites finally enter the Promised Land at the end of the book of Numbers.

. The Levites receive no tribal territory in the Promised Land.

. All biblical sources make unequivocally clear that Miriam is the sister of Moses.

. The Amalekites are never mentioned in a nonbiblical source.

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The Deir Alla texts confirm almost all of the details of the biblical account of Balaam, the son of Beor.

. According to _____________, the Israelites spent most of their forty-year sojourn in the wilderness at the site of Kadesh:

. The Amalekites appear to have been herders of:

. The scouts return from the land of Canaan with all of the following except:

. The seraphim are:

. The rebellions by the priests Dathan and Abiram provide an etiology for the decline of the tribe of ____________:

. The king of _____________ hired Balaam to curse the Israelites?

. The episode of the scouts in Numbers 13-14 is reminiscent of the story of _______________?

. According to the case of the daughters of Zelophehad, the daughters could only keep their inheritance if they:

. A term used for the deified dead is:

. How many cities of refuge were given to the Levites?

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