20 Challenging Deuteronomy 26 Quiz Questions And Answers

Deuteronomy 26 turns the long legal section of the book into liturgy: a basket, a confession, and a triadic recital of national identity to be spoken by every Israelite at the place the LORD chose. The Deuteronomy 26 quiz below tests the chapter’s two ceremonies and the closing covenant declaration.

Run it alongside the Deuteronomy 25 quiz on the case-law that precedes the turn, the Deuteronomy 27 quiz on the curses that follow, and the entire Bible quiz.

Deuteronomy 26 Quiz Questions and Answers

Question 1: How did the firstfruits historical recital begin?

A. The LORD delivered us from Pharaoh’s hand
B. A Syrian ready to perish was my father
C. We were bondmen to the king of Egypt
D. Our fathers were strangers in the land
E. The God of Abraham remembered his covenant

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Answer 1: B. The recital opens with one of the most striking confessions in the Old Testament: the patriarch (Jacob) is identified not by glory but by precarity. The “Syrian ready to perish” phrase reaches back to Jacob’s twenty years in Padan-aram before his descent into Egypt, framing the entire national story as a rescue from the edge of extinction.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:5. “A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few.”

Question 2: What did this chapter say the LORD has avouched concerning Israel that day?

A. To be his servants in the land of inheritance
B. To be his witnesses among the nations round about
C. To be his army in the day of battle
D. To be his portion among the peoples of earth
E. To be his peculiar people as he promised

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Answer 2: E. The Hebrew word translated “peculiar” (segullah) carries the sense of a treasured private possession, like a king’s personal jewels distinct from the crown’s general property. Peter applies the same word to the church in 1 Peter 2:9.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:18. “And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee.”

Question 3: What was Israel commanded to do with the first of all the fruit of the earth?

A. Take of the firstfruits, put it in a basket, and go unto the chosen place
B. Bring it before the elders gathered at the gate of the city in the day appointed
C. Offer it upon a high place set apart in the field of the harvest
D. Burn the offering at the threshing floor of the priest before the morning watch
E. Lay it before the door of the tabernacle of the assembly of Israel

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Answer 3: A. Three specific actions in sequence: select, basket, transport. The destination is the central sanctuary, not a local high place. The provision binds every Israelite landholder to a long pilgrimage acknowledging that the harvest is gift before it is property.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:2. “Thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth… and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.”

Question 4: Which set names the three negative confessions made in the third-year tithe declaration?

A. I have not lent upon usury, taken pledge wrongfully, or oppressed the stranger
B. I have not turned aside, broken covenant, served other gods of heathen
C. I have not robbed the poor, withheld wages, or despised the elders
D. I have not eaten in mourning, taken for unclean, given for the dead
E. I have not gone after Baalim, mingled with heathen, defiled the camp

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Answer 4: D. The three confessions cover ritual states (mourning), ceremonial purity (unclean use), and pagan death-cult practices (offerings to the dead). All three would have defiled the tithe by association with death or impurity. The declaration attests that the holy portion has been kept holy throughout the third year.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 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.”

Question 5: When the Egyptians afflicted Israel, what did the recital say happened next?

A. Our fathers gathered themselves at the gate of Pharaoh
B. Our deliverer arose by the river to seek the face of the LORD
C. We cried unto the LORD God and the LORD heard our voice
D. We sent up an offering of incense at the place of bondage
E. Our captains stood before the king of Egypt with petition

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Answer 5: C. The recital compresses Exodus 2-3 into a single sentence. The verse names three specific things the LORD looked upon: affliction, labour, and oppression. The threefold construction emphasises that nothing in the suffering went unnoticed by the covenant God.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:7. “And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression.”

Question 6: After bringing the firstfruits before the LORD, what was the offerer to do?

A. Sit at the door of the tabernacle for seven days of fasting
B. Pour the firstfruits upon the head of the priest in the day appointed
C. Bring with him a sacrifice of a young bullock for the trespass of his fathers
D. Set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God
E. Wait until the elders of the city had pronounced a blessing upon him

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Answer 6: D. The repeated phrase “before the LORD thy God” frames the act with deliberate emphasis. The offerer’s posture is worship, not transaction. Setting and bowing become the closing actions of the ritual, transforming the basket of produce into an act of personal homage.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:10. “And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God.”

Question 7: How did the third-year tithe declaration before the LORD open?

A. I have brought the hallowed things out of mine house
B. I have offered the firstfruits in the day of harvest
C. I have walked before thee in integrity of heart
D. I have remembered thy covenant in my time of trouble
E. I have not turned aside from the way commanded

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Answer 7: A. The opening clause names the act before the audit: the holy portion has already left the offerer’s house. The verse continues with the four recipients (Levite, stranger, fatherless, widow) and closes with the assertion that nothing has been transgressed or forgotten in the obedience.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:13. “Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow.”

Question 8: What was the priest’s role in the firstfruits ritual?

A. The priest shall pour the wine upon the altar of the LORD
B. The priest shall lay hands on the head of the offerer
C. The priest shall take the basket and set it before the altar
D. The priest shall bless the firstfruits in the name of the LORD
E. The priest shall divide the offering among the elders at gate

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Answer 8: C. The priest’s role is procedural rather than verbal. He receives, places, and steps back. The recital that follows is spoken by the offerer himself. The chapter deliberately preserves direct first-person speech between the worshipper and his God.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:4. “And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.”

Question 9: How did the recital describe the way the Egyptians treated Israel?

A. They drove us from the land of our sojourning by the sword
B. They withheld water and bread from us in the day of our need
C. They smote us at the work of the bricks at noonday
D. They despised our covenant with the LORD God in their pride
E. They evil entreated us, afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage

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Answer 9: E. Three accumulating verbs: evil entreatment (treatment that was bad in itself), affliction (deliberate suffering), and bondage that is specifically called hard. The triadic construction parallels the threefold response in verse 7 where the LORD looks on affliction, labour, and oppression.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:6. “And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.”

Question 10: In the third year, who were to receive the tithe of the increase?

A. The priests, the captains, the strangers, and the fatherless
B. The Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow
C. The Levite, the priest, the elders, and the gate-keepers
D. The poor, the bondmen, the fatherless, and the captives
E. The Levite, the orphan, the bondman, and the sojourner

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Answer 10: B. The four categories are the chapter’s permanent welfare beneficiaries. The Levite has no inheritance; the stranger has no kindred; the fatherless and widow have no provider. The third-year tithe binds Israel’s agricultural prosperity to a specific obligation toward those who have no land of their own.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:12. “Then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled.”

Question 11: With what was Israel commanded to keep these statutes and judgments?

A. With all thine heart, and with all thy soul
B. With all thy might and with all thy days
C. With all thy mind and with all thy strength
D. With all thy substance and with all thy increase
E. With all thy strength and with all thy understanding

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Answer 11: A. The pairing of heart and soul echoes the great commandment of chapter 6, where “might” is added as a third element. Heart and soul together signify the integration of intent and life: not merely outward compliance, but the inward consent of the whole person.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:16. “Thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.”

Question 12: How did the recital describe the land the LORD had given Israel?

A. A land of vineyards which thou plantedst not
B. A land of cities which thou buildedst not
C. A land that floweth with milk and honey
D. A land of wells which thou diggedst not
E. A land of corn and wine which thou sowedst not

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Answer 12: C. The phrase appears repeatedly in the Pentateuch and signals not simply fertility but covenanted abundance. The distractors all echo language from Deuteronomy 6:10-11, where the same idea is unfolded across multiple kinds of inherited prosperity.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:9. “And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.”

Question 13: What did this chapter say the LORD would make of Israel above all nations?

A. To be lords of the earth from sea to sea in the day of his coming
B. To be the firstborn among the nations of the earth for ever
C. To be the keepers of the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers
D. To be the inheritance of the LORD in the day of his rest among them
E. To be high above all nations, in praise, in name, and in honour

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Answer 13: E. The chapter closes by naming three specific dimensions of national elevation: praise (public recognition), name (lasting reputation), and honour (weight or glory). The verse ends with the closing seal: “and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God.”
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:19. “And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour.”

Question 14: With whom was the offerer of firstfruits to rejoice in every good thing?

A. With the priest of the LORD that ministereth at the chosen place
B. With thine house, the Levite and the stranger that is among you
C. With the elders of his city sitting at the gate of judgment
D. With the captains of the host gathered at the door of the assembly
E. With the men of his tribe assembled at the threshing floor of his fathers

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Answer 14: B. The Levite has no land, the stranger has no kindred. Both are structurally excluded from harvest joy unless the landowner deliberately includes them. The verse turns rejoicing itself into an obligation that cannot be performed alone.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:11. “And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing… thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.”

Question 15: What did the third-year tithe-payer ask the LORD to do at the close of his declaration?

A. Send forth thy mercy upon the land that thou hast given unto thy servants
B. Visit thy people in the day of their need with rain from heaven
C. Increase the substance of thy servant in the land of his inheritance
D. Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven and bless thy people Israel
E. Remember thy servant in the day of the great harvest of the land

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Answer 15: D. The petition reverses the gaze. Throughout the chapter the worshipper has been bringing offerings up; now he asks God to look down. The verse closes by tying the request to the patriarchal oath: “as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:15. “Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us.”

Question 16: Through what manner did the LORD bring Israel forth out of Egypt?

A. With the angel of his presence sent before the host through the deeps
B. With the cloud and the pillar of fire that led the way of the people
C. With the prophets that he raised up unto the people in the day of distress
D. With the rod of his servant lifted up against the king of the land of Egypt
E. With a mighty hand, an outstretched arm, with great terribleness, and with wonders

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Answer 16: E. Five accumulating phrases describing the manner of deliverance. The terms reach back to the plague narrative in Exodus 7-12 and forward to the Song of the Sea in Exodus 15. The recital condenses the entire Exodus into one tightly packed verse.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:8. “And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders.”

Question 17: What were the Israelite to say to the priest when bringing the firstfruits?

A. Behold, the firstfruits of the land are now brought before the LORD God of our fathers
B. Receive this offering as a memorial unto the LORD my God in the day of harvest
C. Bless me, O priest of the most high God, in the day of my appearing before him
D. I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country
E. Hear me, servant of the LORD, in the day of my standing before the chosen place

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Answer 17: D. The opening word “I profess” frames the entire ritual as a public confession of faith. The verse continues by tying the offerer’s arrival in the land back to the patriarchal oath: “the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.”
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:3. “I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.”

Question 18: What did this chapter say Israel had avouched concerning the LORD that day?

A. The LORD to be his ransomer for ever in the land of inheritance
B. The LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways
C. The LORD to be a witness against the nations in the latter days
D. The LORD to be his portion gathered out of the peoples of the world
E. The LORD to be set before thee in the chosen place of the altar

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Answer 18: B. The avouching is mutual and parallel. Israel binds the LORD as God in verse 17, and the LORD binds Israel as his peculiar people in verse 18. The two verses together form a formal covenantal exchange, each side publicly claiming the other.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:17. “Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes.”

Question 19: When did the firstfruits ritual become binding upon Israel?

A. When thou art come in unto the land, possessest it and dwellest therein
B. When the year of release had been proclaimed at the gate of the city
C. When the new moon of the appointed feast was come unto the chosen place
D. When the priest had blessed the people in the day of the great harvest
E. When the captain of the host had pronounced peace upon the land of inheritance

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Answer 19: A. Three conditions, all of which must hold: arrival, possession, and settled dwelling. The ritual is not for the wandering generation. It is for those whose feet rest on inherited soil and whose first harvest is the visible proof that the promise has been kept.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:1. “And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein.”

Question 20: What did the recital say Israel became while sojourning in Egypt?

A. A nation, great, mighty and populous
B. A people set apart from the heathen
C. A multitude bound by chains of servitude
D. A company of strangers before Pharaoh
E. A people of covenant in Goshen

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Answer 20: A. Three intensifying adjectives describe the multiplication: great in size, mighty in strength, populous in number. The verse records the patriarchal promise of greatness and multiplication as fulfilled. The components are scattered across Genesis 12:2, 15:5, 18:18, and 22:17, where Abraham is variously promised a “great nation,” innumerable seed, and “great and mighty” descendants.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 26:5. “and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.”

The chapter that begins by demanding the first of every harvest closes by declaring that Israel itself is the LORD’s first harvest among the nations.