The Sinai Covenant
10 Grade 10 Religious Education (CRE) questions on The Sinai Covenant, with worked marking schemes. 10 questions are available on this topic in full.
Question 1
4 marksOutline four actions Moses took after he came down from Mount Sinai and found the Israelites worshipping the golden calf (Exodus 32:19-35). (4 marks)
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1 markWhen the covenant was confirmed at the foot of Mount Sinai, Moses built an altar and set up twelve stone pillars (Exodus 24:4). What did the pillars represent?
A. The twelve elders who led the people
B. The twelve spies sent into Canaan
C. The twelve tribes of Israel
D. The twelve months of the year
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4 marks(a) What is meant by the term 'worship'? (1 mark)
(b) Suggest three ways in which a Grade 10 learner can take part meaningfully in worship at home, at school and in church. (3 marks) (Total: 4 marks)
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1 markDuring a land dispute before village elders in Kakamega, a man knowingly lies that his neighbour moved the boundary stones. Which of the Ten Commandments does he break most directly?
A. Do not steal from your neighbour
B. Do not covet what belongs to others
C. Honour your father and your mother
D. Do not give false testimony
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6 marks(a) State the four commandments in Exodus 20:3-11 that deal with the relationship between people and God. (4 marks)
(b) Explain how a Grade 10 learner can apply any one of these commandments in daily life. (2 marks) (Total: 6 marks)
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1 markOn Mount Sinai, Moses pleaded with God not to destroy the Israelites after they made the golden calf (Exodus 32:11-13). Which argument did Moses use?
A. God's oath to Abraham, Isaac and Israel
B. Aaron alone was to blame for the golden calf
C. The Egyptians had forced them to make the idol
D. The people had not yet heard the commandments
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5 marks(a) Outline three things God told the Israelites through Moses in Exodus 19:3-6 as the basis of the covenant. (3 marks)
(b) State two ways the Israelites prepared to meet God at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:10-15). (2 marks) (Total: 5 marks)
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1 markWhich festival, held after the harvest had been gathered, required the Israelites to live in temporary shelters for seven days to remember how God brought them out of Egypt (Leviticus 23:39-43)?
A. The Festival of Unleavened Bread
B. The Day of Atonement
C. The Festival of Weeks
D. The Festival of Tabernacles
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5 marksDescribe how God renewed the Sinai covenant with the Israelites in Exodus 34:1-28. (5 marks)
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Any five of the following, 1 mark each (5 marks): - God told Moses to chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones (v1). - Moses went up Mount Sinai early in the morning alone; no one else, and no flocks or herds, were to be near the mountain (v2-4). - The LORD came down in the cloud, stood there with Moses and proclaimed His name (v5). - He declared Himself the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving sin, yet not leaving the guilty unpunished (v6-7). - Moses bowed down, worshipped, and asked God to go with the people, forgive their sin and take them as His inheritance (v8-9). - God said, 'I am making a covenant with you', and promised to do wonders never done before (v10). - God promised to drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (v11). - He warned them not to make treaties with the people of the land and to break down their altars, sacred stones and Asherah poles (v12-13). - He forbade the worship of other gods and the making of cast idols (v14, 17). - He gave laws on the festivals, the firstborn and the Sabbath rest (v18-26). - Moses stayed forty days and forty nights without bread or water, and the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments, were written on the tablets (v1, 28).
Question 10
5 marks(a) Describe the Ark of the Covenant as God instructed in Exodus 25:10-22. (3 marks)
(b) State two reasons why the Ark of the Covenant was important to the Israelites in the wilderness. (2 marks) (Total: 5 marks)
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(a) Any three of the following, 1 mark each (3 marks): - A chest of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high (v10). - Overlaid with pure gold inside and out, with a gold moulding around it (v11). - Four gold rings on its feet, with acacia poles overlaid with gold for carrying it; the poles were never to be removed (v12-15). - The tablets of the covenant law were placed inside it (v16). - An atonement cover (mercy seat) of pure gold was placed on top (v17, 21). - Two cherubim of hammered gold stood at the ends of the cover, facing each other with wings spread upward over it (v18-20). (b) Any two of the following, 1 mark each (2 marks): - It was a symbol of God's presence among His people (25:8, 22). - God would meet Moses above the cover between the cherubim and give him His commands (v22). - It held the tablets, reminding Israel of the covenant and its laws. - The atonement cover was linked to forgiveness of sin, as blood was sprinkled on it on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:14-15). - It went ahead of the Israelites on their journeys, showing God's guidance (Numbers 10:33). - It united the nation in worship of the one true God.
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