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Deuteronomy 19 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Cities of Refuge

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.

PreschoolA Safe City

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

KindergartenA Safe Place

CITY → picture 4ROAD → picture 3TREE → picture 1STONE → picture 2

Grade 1Cities of Refuge

Set apart three safe cities. → picture 5Make the roads ready. → picture 1An ax head flew off while cutting a tree. → picture 4Do not move a neighbor's boundary stone. → picture 2Two or three witnesses are needed. → picture 3

Order:

1. Set apart three cities2. Prepare the roads3. An accident in the forest4. Two or three witnesses

Grade 2Run to the Safe City

  1. How many safe cities did they pick first? Three
  2. Why did they make good roads? So people could run to the safe cities
  3. Who could run to a safe city? A person who hurt someone by accident
  4. What must they not move? The neighbor's stone that marks his land
  5. How many people must agree? Two or three
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Grade 3Refuge and Fairness

  1. Where were the cities of refuge? In the middle of their land
  2. Who could flee there? Someone who killed a neighbor by accident
  3. Give the example from the forest. The ax head slipped and hit the other man.
  4. Who did the cities not protect? Someone who killed on purpose
  5. What happened to a lying witness? The judges did to him what he planned to do to his brother.
1: Set apart three cities2: Prepare the roads3: An accident in the forest4: Two or three witnesses
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Grade 4Justice with Mercy

  1. How many cities of refuge were west of the Jordan? Three
  2. What did God's law distinguish between? Accident and intent
  3. Why was moving a boundary stone wrong? It would steal a neighbor's land.
  4. What did eye for eye do? Set a limit for judges so punishment would fit the crime

Word bank: 1. cities; 2. head; 3. witness

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

Grade 5A Refuge Prepared

  1. What was the goal of the cities of refuge? That innocent blood not be shed in the land
  2. What did God's law weigh besides outcome? Intent
  3. Why could a single witness not convict? Two or three witnesses were needed to protect the truth.
  4. What was eye for eye? A rule of proportion for judges, not permission for personal revenge
  5. How does Hebrews 6:18 use the idea of refuge? Believers have fled for refuge to the hope set before us in Christ.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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