Quiz: Moses and Egypt

Please answer these questions and upload the document with your answers.

1. What is the explanation Rashi gives for mentioned the names of Jacob’s descendants at the beginning of the book of Exodus?
2. Rashbam helps us to understand this piece of text in a different light. What does he teach?
3. Rashi says that “lo” “with him” (Exodus 1:10) means two different things. What are they?
4. According to Ramban, how clever are Pharoah’s advisors?
5. Rash and Ibn Ezra say that the midwives named in the Torah, Shifra and Puah, are actually code names for other characters. Who are the characters and what does the name mean?
6. What is the “goodness” found in Moses according to Ramban? (Exodus 2:2) How does S’forno diffe