Week 210 · about 45 minutes
Deuteronomy 15
Deuteronomy 15 · Memory verse Deuteronomy 15:4
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Deuteronomy 15), the matching word search and answer key (Deuteronomy 15 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a ribbon
Hold a ribbon. Read Deuteronomy 15 in about four minutes, stopping at Deuteronomy 15:4: “However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Deuteronomy 15?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Deuteronomy 15 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.” 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, “If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.” Deuteronomy 15 opens with these words: “At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.” The line to keep is Deuteronomy 15:4: “However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)” Carry the word “however” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Deuteronomy 15:4: “However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Deuteronomy 15? Then try this: Read “However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your 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 Deuteronomy 15. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Deuteronomy 15:4. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Deuteronomy 15 and write Deuteronomy 15:4 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Deuteronomy 15:4
“However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Deuteronomy 15. Help us remember Deuteronomy 15:4 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.