Week 121 · about 45 minutes
Exodus 29
Exodus 29 · Memory verse Exodus 29:45
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Exodus 29), the matching word search and answer key (Exodus 29 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read Exodus 29 in about four minutes, stopping at Exodus 29:45: “I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Exodus 29?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Exodus 29 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.” Exodus 29 opens with these words: ““This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams…” The line to keep is Exodus 29:45: “I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.” Carry the word “dwell” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Exodus 29:45: “I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Exodus 29? Then try this: Read “I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Exodus 29. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Exodus 29:45. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Exodus 29 and write Exodus 29:45 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Exodus 29:45
“I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Exodus 29. Help us remember Exodus 29:45 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.