This Deuteronomy 16 quiz tests one of the most procedurally dense chapters in the Mosaic law: three pilgrim feasts compressed into the first seventeen verses, followed by a charge to judges and a closing prohibition on groves and images. Pair it with the Deuteronomy 5 quiz and the Deuteronomy 6 quiz for the broader covenantal frame, and the Leviticus 23 quiz for the original setting of the same feasts. For wider practice, the hardest Bible trivia questions and the entire Bible quiz push the test broader.
Deuteronomy 16 Quiz Questions and Answers
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Answer 1: B. Three times yearly: unleavened bread, weeks, and tabernacles. The chapter does not include the Day of Atonement or the Feast of Trumpets among the pilgrim appearances, only these three.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:16. “Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose.”
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Answer 2: E. The prohibition is precisely “a grove of any trees” near the altar. Groves were associated with Canaanite worship of Asherah, and the law forbids any visual or ritual blending of Yahwist sacrifice with surrounding pagan practice.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:21. “Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.”
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Answer 3: A. Abib (later renamed Nisan) was fixed because it was the month the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt by night. The other months named are real Hebrew months but belong to other feasts and seasons.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:1. “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.”
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Answer 4: C. A freewill offering, given according to how the LORD had blessed each man. The Feast of Weeks does not prescribe a fixed offering category; the size scales with personal harvest.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:10. “And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.”
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Answer 5: D. The flesh of the first-day sacrifice was not to remain through the night. The Passover meal was a one-night affair; nothing of the central sacrifice could carry into the next morning.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:4. “neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.”
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Answer 6: A. Judges and officers, with the explicit charge to judge with just judgment. The mandate is civic, not priestly. Priests had a separate jurisdiction in matters of ritual.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:18. “Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.”
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Answer 7: D. The trigger is agricultural: harvest completion. Tabernacles is the post-harvest feast, celebrating the LORD’s blessing on the year’s produce. Calendar-month and ritual-cycle answers belong to other feasts.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:13. “Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine.”
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Answer 8: E. After roasting and eating at the chosen place, they returned home in the morning. The Passover dispersal happens on day two; the seven days of unleavened bread continue from there.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:7. “And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.”
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Answer 9: B. “Bread of affliction” is the exact phrase. The same bread that ended bondage symbolizes it. Each year’s eating returns Israel mentally to the haste of the night they left Egypt.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:3. “seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste.”
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Answer 10: C. The KJV reads “altogether just.” The Hebrew doubles the word for emphasis (“justice, justice”), and the doubled form makes this verse one of the most pointed commands on judicial integrity in the entire law.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:20. “That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
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Answer 11: C. The verse names eight categories: son, daughter, manservant, maidservant, Levite, stranger, fatherless, widow. The prophet is conspicuously absent. The list deliberately spans the household and the powerless rather than the spiritual elite.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:11. “And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you.”
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Answer 12: B. Sundown, specifically tied to the historical hour of the Exodus. The timing is liturgical and mnemonic, not arbitrary. Israel slays the Passover at the same hour they once walked out of Egypt.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:6. “there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.”
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Answer 13: E. The image is named with the LORD’s verdict attached: hateth. The chapter closes on this two-part prohibition (grove and image), framing every preceding feast as worship that must remain visually unmixed with idolatry.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:22. “Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.”
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Answer 14: A. Both the flock (sheep and goats) and the herd (cattle) are permitted. Deuteronomy’s framing is broader than Exodus 12, which named only a lamb. The chapter assumes a fuller national observance at the central sanctuary.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:2. “Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.”
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Answer 15: D. Seven days. Note that other passages (Leviticus 23:36, Numbers 29:35) add an eighth-day solemn assembly, but Deuteronomy 16 specifies only the seven-day feast itself.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:15. “Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose.”
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Answer 16: E. The verse pairs two effects of the bribe: blinding the wise and perverting the righteous. The double effect targets both the judge’s perception and the judge’s verdict, making a single act of corruption into a double failure of justice.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:19. “Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.”
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Answer 17: A. The starting point is agricultural and personal: the very moment the sickle first cuts the standing grain. The Feast of Weeks is therefore tied to each farmer’s harvest activity rather than to a fixed calendar date.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:9. “Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.”
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Answer 18: C. The prohibition is explicit: “not within any of thy gates.” Passover was a centralized sacrifice from this point forward, in contrast to the original Exodus night when it was kept household by household.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:5. “Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
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Answer 19: D. A solemn assembly with the prohibition of all work attached. The seventh day closes the Passover-Unleavened Bread complex with the same Sabbath logic that governs other appointed feasts.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:8. “Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.”
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Answer 20: B. The remembrance is bondage. Even at the height of harvest gladness, Israel must keep the memory of slavery alive. The verse pairs this remembrance with the obligation to keep the statutes, tying gratitude directly to obedience.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 16:12. “And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.”
