Week 206 · about 45 minutes
Deuteronomy 11
Deuteronomy 11 · Memory verse Deuteronomy 11:13
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Deuteronomy 11), the matching word search and answer key (Deuteronomy 11 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a cup of water
Hold a cup of water. Read Deuteronomy 11 in about four minutes, stopping at Deuteronomy 11:13: “It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Deuteronomy 11?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Deuteronomy 11 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.” 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, “and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.” Deuteronomy 11 opens with these words: “Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.” The line to keep is Deuteronomy 11:13: “It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart…” Carry the word “happen” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Deuteronomy 11:13: “It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Deuteronomy 11? Then try this: Read “It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh…” 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 Deuteronomy 11. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Deuteronomy 11:13. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Deuteronomy 11 and write Deuteronomy 11:13 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Deuteronomy 11:13
“It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Deuteronomy 11. Help us remember Deuteronomy 11:13 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.