Week 226 · about 45 minutes
Deuteronomy 31
Deuteronomy 31 · Memory verse Deuteronomy 31:13
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Deuteronomy 31), the matching word search and answer key (Deuteronomy 31 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 31 in about four minutes, stopping at Deuteronomy 31:13: “and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Deuteronomy 31?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Deuteronomy 31 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.” 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, “Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.” Deuteronomy 31 opens with these words: “Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.” The line to keep is Deuteronomy 31:13: “and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to…” Carry the word “children” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Deuteronomy 31:13: “and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan 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 31? Then try this: Read “and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you…” 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 31. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Deuteronomy 31:13. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Deuteronomy 31 and write Deuteronomy 31:13 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Deuteronomy 31:13
“and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.””
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Deuteronomy 31. Help us remember Deuteronomy 31:13 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.