25 Comprehensive Deuteronomy 33 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: B. The opening theophany names three sites of revelation: Sinai, Seir, and Paran. Each one marks an earlier moment when the LORD made himself known to or for Israel.
KJV Reference: “And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints” (Deuteronomy 33:2).

Answer 2: A. The title is rare and weighty. Of all the figures in the Pentateuch, only Moses is called “the man of God,” and the title appears here at the threshold of his last words.
KJV Reference: “And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death” (Deuteronomy 33:1).

Answer 3: D. Reuben’s blessing is short and sober: not extinction, but bare survival. Given Reuben’s earlier sin in Genesis 35, the blessing is a measured mercy.
KJV Reference: “Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few” (Deuteronomy 33:6).

Answer 4: B. The plea for Judah carries an undertone of separation: the prayer that Judah be brought back to his people and that the LORD’s hands suffice for him.
KJV Reference: “And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies” (Deuteronomy 33:7).

Answer 5: E. The Thummim and Urim were the priestly instruments of divine inquiry. To assign them to Levi was to assign Levi the office of mediating God’s word and verdict to the people.
KJV Reference: “And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah” (Deuteronomy 33:8).

Answer 6: C. Benjamin is given the most intimate of all the tribal blessings: dwelling next to the LORD himself, covered all the day long, between his shoulders.
KJV Reference: “And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders” (Deuteronomy 33:12).

Answer 7: B. Joseph receives the longest tribal blessing, stacked with “precious things”: dew, deep, sun, moon, ancient mountains, lasting hills, the bush. The catalogue spans the cosmos.
KJV Reference: “And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath” (Deuteronomy 33:13).

Answer 8: A. The order matters: ten thousands for the younger, thousands for the elder. Moses preserves Jacob’s earlier prophecy that Ephraim would be the greater of Joseph’s two sons.
KJV Reference: “And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh” (Deuteronomy 33:17).

Answer 9: D. The two tribes are joined in a single blessing: theirs is the calling to draw the wider people toward worship at the mountain. Trade prosperity is harnessed to spiritual leadership.
KJV Reference: “They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand” (Deuteronomy 33:19).

Answer 10: C. Gad’s blessing is martial. The image of tearing the arm with the crown is precise: total dismemberment of the enemy from limb to head.
KJV Reference: “Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head” (Deuteronomy 33:20).

Answer 11: B. Note the difference from Jacob’s blessing in Genesis 49: there Dan is a serpent, here a lion’s whelp leaping out of Bashan. Moses’ image is bolder, more aggressive.
KJV Reference: “And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan” (Deuteronomy 33:22).

Answer 12: E. Naphtali’s blessing is one of fulness without specific economic detail: divine favour, divine blessing, possession from west to south. The accent is on God’s pleasure resting upon him.
KJV Reference: “And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south” (Deuteronomy 33:23).

Answer 13: A. Asher’s territory was famous for olive groves; the image is of treading the olive press until oil flowed up to the ankle. The blessing is excess.
KJV Reference: “And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil” (Deuteronomy 33:24).

Answer 14: D. The proverb has worn smooth from quotation, but its meaning is exact: each day’s strength is calibrated to that day’s need. The promise is sufficiency, not surplus.
KJV Reference: “Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be” (Deuteronomy 33:25).

Answer 15: C. The doxology opens by declaring God’s incomparability (there is none like him) and grounds it in his cosmic mobility, riding heaven and sky for the help of his people.
KJV Reference: “There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky” (Deuteronomy 33:26).

Answer 16: B. The pairing is one of the most quoted lines in scripture: refuge above, arms beneath. Whichever way Israel turns, God is found there.
KJV Reference: “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he shall say, Destroy them” (Deuteronomy 33:27).

Answer 17: A. Israel’s dwelling is described as alone, set apart from the nations, and the language of fountains, corn, wine, and dropping heavens piles agricultural blessing on covenantal solitude.
KJV Reference: “Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew” (Deuteronomy 33:28).

Answer 18: E. The law is property, not in the sense of possession alone but of birthright. Israel inherits the law the way a son inherits a portion: as the substance of who he is.
KJV Reference: “Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob” (Deuteronomy 33:4).

Answer 19: D. Before the ritual functions are mentioned, the teaching function comes first. Levi exists to put God’s word into Israel’s ears.
KJV Reference: “They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar” (Deuteronomy 33:10).

Answer 20: C. The “he” of the verse refers back to the LORD or, in some readings, to Moses, but the structure ties kingship to the covenantal assembly: when the heads gathered, there was the kingship.
KJV Reference: “And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together” (Deuteronomy 33:5).

Answer 21: B. The phrase “him that was separated from his brethren” recalls the long captivity in Egypt: sold, imprisoned, exalted. The blessing now crowns the head once distanced.
KJV Reference: “Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren” (Deuteronomy 33:16).

Answer 22: A. The image is precise: enemies whose threats prove empty, and Israel ascending the very heights from which those threats came. Treading high places is a posture of total victory.
KJV Reference: “Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places” (Deuteronomy 33:29).

Answer 23: C. The “thy” of the verse is the LORD’s; the saints rest in God’s own hand. The next clauses add: they sit at his feet, and every one shall receive of his words.
KJV Reference: “Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words” (Deuteronomy 33:3).

Answer 24: D. The verse alludes to the Levites’ action at the golden calf: putting covenant loyalty before family ties. That severance is the qualification for their priestly office.
KJV Reference: “Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant” (Deuteronomy 33:9).

Answer 25: E. Iron and brass were the two strongest metals of the era. The image is of footwear that does not wear out, fitted for a journey of indefinite length.
KJV Reference: “Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be” (Deuteronomy 33:25).