Week 62 · about 45 minutes
Genesis 11
Genesis 11 · Memory verse Genesis 11:5
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Genesis 11), the matching word search and answer key (Genesis 11 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read Genesis 11 in about four minutes, stopping at Genesis 11:5: “Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Genesis 11?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Genesis 11 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” 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, “Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.” Genesis 11 opens with these words: “The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” The line to keep is Genesis 11:5: “Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.” Carry the word “down” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Genesis 11:5: “Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Genesis 11? Then try this: Read “Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.” 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 Genesis 11. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Genesis 11:5. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Genesis 11 and write Genesis 11:5 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Genesis 11:5
“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Genesis 11. Help us remember Genesis 11:5 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.