The Bible A-Z

For each letter A-Z, guess the answer that pertains to the Bible.
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Clue
Answer
A
Term for one of Jesus's 12 disciples
Apostle
B
Jesus's birthplace
Bethlehem
C
First murderer
Cain
D
King who came before Solomon
David
E
Serpent-infested garden
Eden
F
I will make you _______ of men
Fishers
G
Sodom's partner in crime
Gomorrah
H
Handmaid of Sarah and mother of Ishmael
Hagar
I
Another name for Jacob
Israel
J
He was swallowed by a "great fish"
Jonah
K
Adam ____ Eve his wife, and she conceived
Knew
L
One of the Plagues of Egypt
Locusts
M
Man who lived 969 years
Methuselah
N
Ark builder
Noah
O
He spilled his seed on the ground
Onan
P
Goliath's people
Philistines
Q
The _____ and the dead
Quick
R
Last book of the Bible
Revelation
S
Day of rest
Sabbath
T
Holiest building in Jerusalem, once
Temple
U
Type of bread to have on Passover
Unleavened
V
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in ____
Vain
W
Jesus turned water into this
Wine
X
Persian emperor who appears in the Book of Esther
Xerxes
Y
For my ____ is easy, and my burden is light
Yoke
Z
Another term for the promised land
Zion
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Level 31
Nov 2, 2015
Please allow for philistine
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Level 37
May 11, 2017
Why? - Goliath's PEOPLE were PhilistineS. One of them would have been a PhilistinE. Duh
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Level 74
Jan 13, 2016
Is there some reason that you don't accept matzo, matzot, matzos, or matzus for unleavened bread?
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Level 51
Jan 25, 2016
Because it had to start with a "u"
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Level 41
May 18, 2016
they are brand names I think
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Level 41
May 18, 2016
like saying jesus turned water into lambrini
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Level 75
Oct 25, 2016
It certainly wouldn't have been deemed a miracle if he had turned it into Lambrini. Ugh. Probably would have been asked to leave.
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Level 74
Jul 10, 2019
But surely, turning an 'M' into an 'L' is less difficult than turning water to whine...
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2020
Turning whine into wine, now there's a trick!
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Level 77
Oct 5, 2020
you've obviously never been to a basic white girl bachelorette party. It's not that hard.
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Level 74
May 19, 2016
Matza (and variant spellings) is the Hebrew word for unleavened bread used for passover
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Level 69
Jul 7, 2019
I’m thinking that not starting with the letter U is a sufficiently strong reason just on its own, whether or not matzo, etc. is a brand name or not…
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Level 65
May 17, 2016
14, pleased with that. would be concerned if i had got more
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Level 67
May 17, 2016
If you don't mind telling us, why would you be concerned if you had gotten more correct answers?
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Level 67
May 17, 2016
Apparently ignorance of what's contained in the most influential book ever written is a good thing, I guess?
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Level 65
Jan 18, 2019
He is just displaying his dislike of Christianity. It is similar to many other atheists on this site. They love to load a comment with a zinger like that because it is fun for them. It is very disrespectful, but I guess that is the point. Just ignore it.
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Level 72
Sep 13, 2019
Many Atheists, like myself, have read the bible and know more about it than many christians. Being proud of not knowing something is just dumb, you don't have to believe in it to learn about it.
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Level 51
Mar 8, 2024
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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Level 58
Jun 13, 2017
Me too! It may be 'the most influential book of all time' - doesn't make it true!
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Level 67
Sep 13, 2019
I didn't say anything in it was true. I said it was the most influential book ever written, so people who strive to be educated should have some idea what's in it, or, at the very least, should not celebrate being ignorant of what's in it.
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Level 23
Aug 9, 2020
Atheists are so foolish. Why gamble since they are wrong with eternity in hell? Isn't life hellish enough?
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Level 76
May 3, 2022
Ah, the old Pascal's Wager. Truly a classic. Here are some reasons why we "gamble" thus:Which belief system is the "right" one? You can't pick all of them, and for any one you pick there are many others that say you're going to hell for that choice.I can't force myself to believe in something I don't.I don't think that, if there is a God, they would be fooled by me paying lip service with no actual faith backing it up just to hedge my bets against going to hell.Any god that would be fooled by that is either incredibly shallow and only cares about surface-level praise, or is pretty incompetent. Neither way really feels worthy of worship.
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Level 59
May 5, 2022
+the possibility of a god who rewards an honest disbelief and punishes dishonest belief forces you to not belief if you simply don't belief

+ the mather of principle that a god who forces you to belief with the punishment of eternal damnation if you don't and doesn't look at you actions or how you lived your life, is a dictatorial god who isn't worth worshipping

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Level 79
May 17, 2016
For K, did you consider allowing "Knocked up"? (There are dozens of versions of the bible, surely one on them used this.)
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Level 67
May 17, 2016
Ha. I'd support it.
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Level 37
Jul 27, 2017
I seriously doubt if any legitimate translation would use such a vulgar word.
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Level 74
Jul 10, 2019
Ironically @devantilya, the 'legitimate' translations you've read are literally vulgar. As in, translated into your language (aka a vernacular, instead of Latin etc). Etymologically the root of vulgar means common. A lot of Christians were burned, tortured, and killed by other Christians for translating the Christian bible into vulgar languages that common people could understand -- instead of allowing scriptural literacy and interpretation to be monopolised by the clergy and edu-ma-cated elites. One guy's bones were dug up and thrown into a river decades after he died because people were still upset. So yeah, no shame in vulgarity as far as I can see. Snobbery and prudishness strike me as odd vestments for a slave liberation religion.
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Level 70
Sep 14, 2019
Christianity isn't a slave liberation religion.
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Level 60
May 19, 2022
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified." Isaiah 61:1-3, quoted by Jesus in Luke 4:18
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Level 51
Mar 8, 2024
Not even the Vulgate?
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Level 71
May 3, 2022
LOL I'm not gonna lie, I tried that at first. Also, I initially typed "yolk" for yoke.
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Level 24
Mar 20, 2024
Same! I thought it was spelled the same way!
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Level 69
May 17, 2016
Methuselah is known as Methusalem 'round here. Could that be considered correct please?
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Level ∞
May 17, 2016
Where is here? Wikipedia doesn't mention that variation.
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Level 86
May 17, 2016
In French, we say Mathusalem, but it's in French ;).
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Level 82
Oct 14, 2016
Not in English, but most continental languages have Mathusalem, Metuzalem or something similar. It's probably from the Latin translation
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Level 79
Feb 18, 2021
I know Methusalem is the spelling used in German
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Level 60
May 17, 2016
Kept trying "yolk." Over-easy and sunny-side-up, apparently.
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Level 79
Feb 18, 2021
I thought of 'yoke' just as I pressed the 'Give Up' button 🥴
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Level 57
May 17, 2016
Allow philistine for Philistines
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Level ∞
May 17, 2016
Okay
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Level 45
May 18, 2016
25/25 with 3:19 first time – and I'm an atheist!
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Level 65
May 18, 2016
There was a King Xerxes in the Bible. That might be your X answer.
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Level 73
Apr 14, 2018
Great suggestion!
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Level ∞
Jul 1, 2019
Agreed. Added that one.
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Level 82
Sep 13, 2019
That must be why the 5 points I got registered as new. Was there no X answer before?
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Level 65
May 21, 2016
wow, great quiz. have to say, I was a little shocked at some of them, made me think :)
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Level 52
Mar 18, 2017
Please accept fisher.
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Level 37
Apr 12, 2017
Jesus was speaking to his apostles collectively therefore, Fishers is the only correct word.
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Level 72
May 12, 2018
I'm not English mother-tongue, but why fishermen is not correct?
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Level 65
Jan 18, 2019
Because it would be strange to say "fishermen of men" since the word "men" is already in the quote.
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Level 80
Mar 5, 2018
Sunday? Seventh day... nothing wrong with those
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Level 37
May 25, 2019
^ For Seventh Day Adventists, the Sabbath is on Saturday, not Sunday. Also depends on which day you believe the week begins; Sunday? or Monday? - So "Sabbath" seems the only logical choice.
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Level 82
Jun 12, 2019
for everybody that knows what they're talking about, the Sabbath is Saturday. Always has been. Though Sabbath now is sometimes used to refer to Sunday because at some point some Christians got confused and mixed up The Lord's Day with the Sabbath, even though it's super clear even from Christians' own stories that these are two distinct and different days, Jesus rising from the dead 3 days after the day before the Sabbath, in other words on Sunday.
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Level 69
Jul 7, 2019
Also Jews, Muslims…
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Level 82
Sep 13, 2019
Christians, Mormons, Hindus, Jains, Scientologists...
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Level 82
Sep 17, 2019
My word choice above might be potentially confusing. Jesus rose "on the third day," not "three days later." So.. on the first day he was crucified (Friday), on the second day he was in the tomb (Saturday, the Sabbath, the reason why they had to cut him down and get him buried in a hurry so they wouldn't break the Sabbath), on the third day he rose (Sunday, the day after the Sabbath).
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Level 75
Jul 19, 2018
I thought The Quick and the Dead was the name of a western..
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Level 74
Jul 10, 2019
It is! Stars Sharon Stone as a gunslinger, Sam Raimi directs. I had no idea it was a bible quote until today.
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Level 66
Feb 25, 2021
For example, 1 Peter 4 (KJV): Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

"Quick", in that context, is an archaic term for "alive", the phrase has understandably been used referring to gunfighters for different reasons.

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Level 76
May 3, 2022
It is! And the name of that western is a reference to a quote from the Bible.
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Level 71
Jul 1, 2019
Isn't the Book of Mormon the newest book?
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Level 92
Jul 2, 2019
Nah, while the Book of Mormon is another Testament of Christ, it is not part of the Bible.
+6
Level 85
Jul 18, 2019
No, the Book of Mormon is a Broadway musical that won nine Tony Awards.
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Level 82
Feb 9, 2020
No it's The DaVinci Code
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Level 70
Sep 13, 2019
Great quiz! One little quibble about the first clue though. Apostle wasn't a term synonymous with the 12 disciples, but a more broad term referring to teachers in the early church. The Apostle Paul, for example, was an apostle, though he was not one of the 12 disciples.
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Level 60
Sep 13, 2019
Anyone else try (with low optimism) "knobbed"...?
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Level 66
May 3, 2022
YES!!!!
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Level 55
Sep 13, 2019
Please, allow Jonas for Jonah
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Level 72
Sep 17, 2019
I typed Methuzulah something like three times. I do realize it isn't the correct spelling, but it IS the spelling of a music artist. I think it is reasonable to think the one in the bible is spelled the same. Can you please accept it as an alternative spelling?
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Level 43
May 8, 2020
Good quiz!
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Level 66
May 3, 2022
Can't believe you didn't allow knobbed for K.
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Level 47
May 3, 2022
ONE of Jesus' 12 disciples sounds like you mean only one of them. I thought the answer was a specific name, like Andrew.
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Level 59
May 3, 2022
I barely got any because i'm Atheist. Good quiz though. Learned a lot!
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Level 43
May 3, 2022
FisherS but not fisher or fishermen?
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Level 66
May 3, 2022
The expression is "fishers of men". It's the only correct way to quote it.
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Level 37
Jul 15, 2022
Can you accept Sunday for Sabbath?... I got it right but Sunday was my initial thought
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Level 64
Nov 13, 2023
Please accept more spellings for the S-word, at least "Shabbat" and "Shabbos". I think this typein should cover everything:

Sh?ab+[ao](t|s|th)