Quiz 5 – Ash Wednesday

Reference: Genesis 3:19

“Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. 3.But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, “You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death.” ‘ 4.Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! 5.God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. 7.Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths. 8.The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. 9.But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. 10.’I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ 11.’Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’

12.The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ 13.Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’

14.Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this, Accursed be you of all animals wild and tame! On your belly you will go and on dust you will feed as long as you live. 15.I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.’

16.To the woman he said: I shall give you intense pain in childbearing, you will give birth to your children in pain. Your yearning will be for your husband, and he will dominate you. 17.To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, Accursed be the soil because of you! Painfully will you get your food from it as long as you live. 18.It will yield you brambles and thistles, as you eat the produce of the land. 19.By the sweat of your face will you earn your food, until you return to the ground, as you were taken from it. For dust you are and to dust you shall return.’

20.The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. 21.Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. 22.Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ 23.So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. 24.He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.”

Reference Daniel’s prayer

Daniel Chapter 9

9:1 It was the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, who was of Median stock and ruled the kingdom of Chaldaea.

9:2 In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, was perusing the scriptures, counting over the number of years – as revealed by Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah – that were to pass before the successive devastations of Jerusalem would come to an end, namely seventy years.

9:3 I turned my face to the Lord God begging for time to pray and to plead with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

9:4 I pleaded with Yahweh my God and made this confession: ‘O Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and have kindness for those who love you and keep your commandments:

9:5 we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly, we have betrayed your commandments and your ordinances and turned away from them.

9:6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.

9:7 Integrity, Lord, is yours; ours the look of shame we wear today, we, the people of Judah, the citizens of Jerusalem, the whole of Israel, near and far away, in every country to which you have dispersed us because of the treason we have committed against you.

9:8 To us, Yahweh, the look of shame belongs, to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, because we have sinned against you.

9:9 To the Lord our God mercy and pardon belong, because we have betrayed him,

Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert,. for forty days being put to the test by the devil. 2. During that time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry. 3.Then the devil said to him, ‘If you are Son of God, tell this stone to turn into a loaf.’ 4.But Jesus replied, ‘Scripture says: Human beings live not on bread alone.’ 5.Then leading him to a height, the devil showed him in a moment of time all the kingdoms of the world ADVERTISEMENT AD 6.and said to him, ‘I will give you all this power and their splendour, for it has been handed over to me, for me to give it to anyone I choose. 7.Do homage, then, to me, and it shall all be yours.’ 8.But Jesus answered him, ‘Scripture says: You must do homage to the Lord your God, him alone you must serve.’ 9.Then he led him to Jerusalem and set him on the parapet of the Temple. ‘If you are Son of God,’ he said to him, ‘throw yourself down from here, 10.for scripture says: He has given his angels orders about you, to guard you, and again: 11.They will carry you in their arms in case you trip over a stone.’ 12.But Jesus answered him, ‘Scripture says: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ 13.Having exhausted every way of putting him to the test, the devil left him, until the opportune moment. 14.Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout the countryside.”