Objects
iron in Deuteronomy 27
EYE-urn
This thing shows up in Deuteronomy 27:5: “There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real thing in a real place.
Deuteronomy 27:5
“There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.”
What kids can learn
When you hear iron in Deuteronomy, remember the sentence around it. God put this thing in the story on purpose.
Read Deuteronomy 27:5 again tomorrow and ask what the thing is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Deuteronomy 27:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThereyoushallanaltartoYahwehGod,analtarofstones.Youshallnotuseanyirononthem.