50 Book of Deuteronomy Bible Quiz Questions

On the edge of the Promised Land, Moses reminds Israel of all God has done for them. Test what you know about his final words.

50 questionsTap an answer to check itBible verse for every answer

Bible Arena · Bible trivia

Easy questions

  1. Question 1Easy

    The Lord will make you the _____ and not the tail.

    Answer: B. HeadDeuteronomy 28:13
    And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
  2. Question 2Easy

    According to the Law of Moses, Israelites were strictly forbidden from charging interest (usury) when lending money to their fellow Israelites.

    Answer: TrueDeuteronomy 23:19
    Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
  3. Question 3Easy

    According to biblical law, the Israelites were completely free to wear clothing woven of two different materials, like wool and linen mixed together.

    Answer: FalseDeuteronomy 22:11
    Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
  4. Question 4Easy

    In Deuteronomy, love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your...

    Answer: D. StrengthDeuteronomy 6:5
    And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
  5. Question 5Easy

    At Mount Horeb, Moses feared that God would destroy the people because of...

    Answer: C. The Golden CalfDeuteronomy 9:19
    For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
  6. Question 6Easy

    Who spoke the words of Deuteronomy to all Israel?

    Answer: D. MosesDeuteronomy 1:1
    These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
  7. Question 7Easy

    Which nation living in Seir were the Israelites told NOT to provoke, because God gave them that land?

    Answer: A. The descendants of EsauDeuteronomy 2:4-5
    And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
  8. Question 8Easy

    In his final address to Israel, Moses said: 'I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and...'

    Answer: C. CurseDeuteronomy 30:19
    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
  9. Question 9Easy

    How old was Moses when he died?

    Answer: C. 120 yearsDeuteronomy 34:7
    And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
  10. Question 10Easy

    God promised to give Israel a land flowing with...

    Answer: D. Milk and honeyDeuteronomy 6:3
    Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
  11. Question 11Easy

    What happened when Sihon king of Heshbon marched out against Israel?

    Answer: A. God delivered him to Israel, and they defeated himDeuteronomy 2:32-33
    Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
  12. Question 12Easy

    The roofs of houses in biblical Israel were pitched (slanted) to let the heavy snow slide off.

    Answer: FalseDeuteronomy 22:8
    When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
  13. Question 13Easy

    If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must...

    Answer: A. Help him lift it upDeuteronomy 22:4
    Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
  14. Question 14Easy

    In the book of Deuteronomy, the Lord your God is a consuming _____.

    Answer: D. FireDeuteronomy 4:24
    For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
  15. Question 15Easy

    According to ancient biblical law, the firstborn son traditionally inherited a double portion of his father's estate.

    Answer: TrueDeuteronomy 21:17
    But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

Medium questions

  1. Question 16Medium

    Where did God command the Israelites to bind His words as symbols?

    Answer: B. On their hands and foreheadsDeuteronomy 6:8
    And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
  2. Question 17Medium

    In the warnings of Deuteronomy, why would Israel sow much seed but harvest little?

    Answer: B. Locusts will devour itDeuteronomy 28:38
    Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
  3. Question 18Medium

    Encouraging Israel before they entered the Promised Land, Moses said: "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never..."

    Answer: A. Leave you nor forsake youDeuteronomy 31:6
    Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
  4. Question 19Medium

    According to the Law, what two seasonal rains did God promise for the land of Israel if the people remained obedient?

    Answer: A. Autumn and spring rainsDeuteronomy 11:14
    That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
  5. Question 20Medium

    Who did Moses say would cross over the Jordan ahead of the people?

    Answer: D. The Lord God and JoshuaDeuteronomy 31:3
    The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
  6. Question 21Medium

    If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to...

    Answer: B. Pay itDeuteronomy 23:21
    When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
  7. Question 22Medium

    Where is the grave of Moses?

    Answer: B. No one knows to this dayDeuteronomy 34:6
    And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
  8. Question 23Medium

    In Moses' final blessing, what did he say about Reuben?

    Answer: B. Let Reuben live and not dieDeuteronomy 33:6
    Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
  9. Question 24Medium

    According to Moses, how is the Promised Land watered?

    Answer: C. By rain from heavenDeuteronomy 11:11
    But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
  10. Question 25Medium

    In the Law given to Israel, what was the inheritance of the Levitical priests who were given no land of their own?

    Answer: B. The Lord is their inheritanceDeuteronomy 18:1-2
    The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
  11. Question 26Medium

    If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not...

    Answer: D. Put a sickle to the standing grainDeuteronomy 23:25
    When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
  12. Question 27Medium

    In ancient Jewish law, how many witnesses were strictly required to establish a matter or secure a conviction for a serious crime?

    Answer: B. At least two or three witnessesDeuteronomy 19:15
    One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
  13. Question 28Medium

    Whom did God command the Israelites to love because they had once been in that same position in Egypt?

    Answer: C. ForeignersDeuteronomy 10:19
    Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  14. Question 29Medium

    According to the Song of Moses, where did the Lord find Jacob (Israel)?

    Answer: C. In a desert land, in a barren howling wasteDeuteronomy 32:10
    He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
  15. Question 30Medium

    In Moses' blessing: 'The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the...'

    Answer: D. Everlasting armsDeuteronomy 33:27
    The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
  16. Question 31Medium

    Against whom does the Law of Moses pronounce a curse for perverting justice?

    Answer: A. Alien, fatherless or widowDeuteronomy 27:19
    Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  17. Question 32Medium

    Which mountain was appointed for pronouncing curses?

    Answer: C. Mount EbalDeuteronomy 27:13
    And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
  18. Question 33Medium

    How often were the Israelites to tithe all the produce of their fields?

    Answer: D. Year by yearDeuteronomy 14:22
    Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
  19. Question 34Medium

    When the Israelites entered the Promised Land, they were commanded to take some of the _____ of their produce and put it in a basket.

    Answer: A. FirstfruitsDeuteronomy 26:2
    That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
  20. Question 35Medium

    In Deuteronomy, Moses tells the people that the commandment he gives is not too difficult or beyond their...

    Answer: B. ReachDeuteronomy 30:11
    For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

Hard questions

  1. Question 36Hard

    When giving the tithe, the person must say: 'I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was...'

    Answer: D. MourningDeuteronomy 26:14
    I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
  2. Question 37Hard

    In the Song of Moses, the Lord says: 'I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will...'

    Answer: A. HealDeuteronomy 32:39
    See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
  3. Question 38Hard

    Do not take a pair of millstones in pledge, for that would be taking a man's...

    Answer: A. LifeDeuteronomy 24:6
    No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
  4. Question 39Hard

    According to the Mosaic Law, if a servant chose to remain with his master forever, what was done to his ear?

    Answer: D. Pierce it with an awl against the doorDeuteronomy 15:17
    Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
  5. Question 40Hard

    In the case of an unsolved murder in a field, what animal's neck was to be broken in a valley?

    Answer: D. A heiferDeuteronomy 21:4
    And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
  6. Question 41Hard

    To which country would the Lord send Israel back in ships as a curse for disobedience?

    Answer: D. EgyptDeuteronomy 28:68
    And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
  7. Question 42Hard

    Moses commanded a law for us, a heritage of the assembly of...

    Answer: C. JacobDeuteronomy 33:4
    Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
  8. Question 43Hard

    And to Issachar, Moses said: 'Rejoice in your...'

    Answer: D. TentsDeuteronomy 33:18
    And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
  9. Question 44Hard

    Why did God tell Israel He would drive out the nations 'little by little'?

    Answer: B. Lest the wild animals multiply around youDeuteronomy 7:22
    And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
  10. Question 45Hard

    In the Law of Moses, a person born of a forbidden union was excluded from the assembly of the Lord until what generation?

    Answer: B. Tenth generationDeuteronomy 23:2
    A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
  11. Question 46Hard

    According to the Law of Moses, what is the penalty for a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his parents?

    Answer: B. Stoning to death by the men of the cityDeuteronomy 21:18-21
    If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not …
  12. Question 47Hard

    What specific geographical features across the Jordan did Moses ask to see?

    Answer: D. The good hill country and LebanonDeuteronomy 3:25
    I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
  13. Question 48Hard

    In Deuteronomy, the Lord warned He would bring every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in...

    Answer: D. The Book of the LawDeuteronomy 28:61
    Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
  14. Question 49Hard

    Who lived in Seir before the descendants of Esau drove them out?

    Answer: A. The HoritesDeuteronomy 2:12
    The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
  15. Question 50Hard

    According to the book of Deuteronomy, whom would the Israelites serve in hunger and thirst if they disobeyed God?

    Answer: A. Enemies sent by the LordDeuteronomy 28:48
    Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Answer key

  1. B. Head (Deuteronomy 28:13)
  2. True (Deuteronomy 23:19)
  3. False (Deuteronomy 22:11)
  4. D. Strength (Deuteronomy 6:5)
  5. C. The Golden Calf (Deuteronomy 9:19)
  6. D. Moses (Deuteronomy 1:1)
  7. A. The descendants of Esau (Deuteronomy 2:4-5)
  8. C. Curse (Deuteronomy 30:19)
  9. C. 120 years (Deuteronomy 34:7)
  10. D. Milk and honey (Deuteronomy 6:3)
  11. A. God delivered him to Israel, and they defeated him (Deuteronomy 2:32-33)
  12. False (Deuteronomy 22:8)
  13. A. Help him lift it up (Deuteronomy 22:4)
  14. D. Fire (Deuteronomy 4:24)
  15. True (Deuteronomy 21:17)
  16. B. On their hands and foreheads (Deuteronomy 6:8)
  17. B. Locusts will devour it (Deuteronomy 28:38)
  18. A. Leave you nor forsake you (Deuteronomy 31:6)
  19. A. Autumn and spring rains (Deuteronomy 11:14)
  20. D. The Lord God and Joshua (Deuteronomy 31:3)
  21. B. Pay it (Deuteronomy 23:21)
  22. B. No one knows to this day (Deuteronomy 34:6)
  23. B. Let Reuben live and not die (Deuteronomy 33:6)
  24. C. By rain from heaven (Deuteronomy 11:11)
  25. B. The Lord is their inheritance (Deuteronomy 18:1-2)
  26. D. Put a sickle to the standing grain (Deuteronomy 23:25)
  27. B. At least two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
  28. C. Foreigners (Deuteronomy 10:19)
  29. C. In a desert land, in a barren howling waste (Deuteronomy 32:10)
  30. D. Everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 33:27)
  31. A. Alien, fatherless or widow (Deuteronomy 27:19)
  32. C. Mount Ebal (Deuteronomy 27:13)
  33. D. Year by year (Deuteronomy 14:22)
  34. A. Firstfruits (Deuteronomy 26:2)
  35. B. Reach (Deuteronomy 30:11)
  36. D. Mourning (Deuteronomy 26:14)
  37. A. Heal (Deuteronomy 32:39)
  38. A. Life (Deuteronomy 24:6)
  39. D. Pierce it with an awl against the door (Deuteronomy 15:17)
  40. D. A heifer (Deuteronomy 21:4)
  41. D. Egypt (Deuteronomy 28:68)
  42. C. Jacob (Deuteronomy 33:4)
  43. D. Tents (Deuteronomy 33:18)
  44. B. Lest the wild animals multiply around you (Deuteronomy 7:22)
  45. B. Tenth generation (Deuteronomy 23:2)
  46. B. Stoning to death by the men of the city (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
  47. D. The good hill country and Lebanon (Deuteronomy 3:25)
  48. D. The Book of the Law (Deuteronomy 28:61)
  49. A. The Horites (Deuteronomy 2:12)
  50. A. Enemies sent by the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:48)
Add this quiz to your website

Free for churches, Sunday schools, youth groups and blogs. Copy this code into your page and the quiz appears there, with answers and verses.

What is the Book of Deuteronomy about?

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Bible and the last of the five books of Moses. It records the words Moses spoke to Israel on the plains of Moab, just before the people crossed the Jordan into Canaan (Deuteronomy 1:1–5). He retells the journey from Mount Horeb, repeats the Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 5:6–21) and urges a new generation to stay faithful.

At its heart is the call, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD," followed by the command to love God with all the heart, soul and might (Deuteronomy 6:4–5). Moses sets before the people blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, and tells them to choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19). Joshua is appointed to lead them after him. The book ends with Moses viewing the land from Mount Nebo, his death, and the words that there arose not a prophet since in Israel like him (Deuteronomy 34:10).

More Bible trivia

See all 104 Bible quizzes →