Week 219 · about 45 minutes
Deuteronomy 24
Deuteronomy 24 · Memory verse Deuteronomy 24:9
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Deuteronomy 24), the matching word search and answer key (Deuteronomy 24 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a key
Hold a key. Read Deuteronomy 24 in about four minutes, stopping at Deuteronomy 24:9: “Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Deuteronomy 24?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Deuteronomy 24 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.” 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 he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.” Deuteronomy 24 opens with these words: “When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in…” The line to keep is Deuteronomy 24:9: “Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.” Carry the word “remember” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Deuteronomy 24:9: “Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Deuteronomy 24? Then try this: Read “Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.” 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 24. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Deuteronomy 24:9. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Deuteronomy 24 and write Deuteronomy 24:9 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Deuteronomy 24:9
“Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Deuteronomy 24. Help us remember Deuteronomy 24:9 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.