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Deuteronomy 15 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Open Your Hand

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolOpen Your Hand

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenGive with Joy

HAND → picture 4BREAD → picture 3SHEEP → picture 1COIN → picture 2

Grade 1An Open Hand

Cancel debts every seven years. → picture 5Open your hand to the poor. → picture 1Do not harden your heart. → picture 4Set servants free. → picture 2Give from your flock. → picture 3

Order:

1. Release debts every seven years2. Open your hand wide3. Set your servant free4. Give him gifts from your flock

Grade 2Help the Poor

  1. What happened every seven years? Forget what people owe you.
  2. What should you do for a poor person? Open your hand and give what he needs
  3. How should you feel when you give? Not sad (circle)
  4. When did a servant go free? In year seven (circle)
  5. Why should they remember Egypt? They were slaves, and God set them free.
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Grade 3Generous Hearts

  1. What happened at the end of every seven years? Debts were canceled.
  2. What must they not do to a poor brother? Harden their heart or shut their hand
  3. What wrong thought must they avoid? The seventh year is near, so I will not lend.
  4. How should a servant leave? Not empty, with gifts from the flock, threshing floor, and wine press
  5. Why should they be generous to servants? They were slaves in Egypt and God redeemed them.
1: Release debts every seven years2: Open your hand wide3: Set your servant free4: Give him gifts from your flock

Grade 4The Year of Release

  1. What happened in the year of release? Debts owed by fellow Israelites were canceled.
  2. What did God call refusing to lend before the seventh year? A wicked thought
  3. Why would generosity always be needed? The poor will never cease out of the land.
  4. What does grace received become? Grace given

Word bank: 1. release; 2. lend; 3. God; 4. open; 5. poor

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Grace Received, Grace Given

  1. What did the law of release aim to do? Keep poverty from becoming permanent
  2. What selfish calculation does Moses warn against? Refusing to lend because the seventh year is near
  3. How is verse 11 both realistic and moral? The poor will never cease, therefore open your hand.
  4. What was the motive for releasing servants generously? Remembering they were slaves in Egypt and God redeemed them
  5. What did Paul say about giving? God loves a cheerful giver.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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