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Exodus 21 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Laws for Fair Living

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.

PreschoolGod Cares About People

scrollpeopleheartcow

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

KindergartenBe Fair

LAWS → picture 2PEOPLE → picture 4KIND → picture 3OX → picture 1

Grade 1God's Fair Laws

God's laws → picture 2Servants set free → picture 4Care for the hurt → picture 1A careful ox owner → picture 3

Order:

1. God said, Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them2. God said, If you buy a Hebrew servant3. God said, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot4. God said, If a man opens a pit

Grade 2Rules for Being Fair

  1. What did these rules show? How to obey the Ten Commandments every day
  2. How many years could a Hebrew servant work? Six
  3. What happened in the seventh year? The servant could go free.
  4. What did someone have to do if he hurt another person? Pay for the doctor and the time lost
  5. Why did a man need to keep his ox in? So it would not hurt people

Grade 3Laws That Protect

  1. What did God say about a Hebrew servant in the seventh year? He would go free.
  2. What did a Hebrew servant not have to pay when he went free? Anything; he went free without paying.
  3. Who else did God give rights to? Women servants
  4. Who was responsible if an ox hurt someone? Its owner
  5. What did eye for an eye mean? Punishment should fit the wrong, and not be more.
1: God said, Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them2: God said, If you buy a Hebrew servant3: God said, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot4: God said, If a man opens a pit

Grade 4Love in Everyday Life

  1. What do the ordinances show? How the Ten Commandments apply to everyday life
  2. Why did some people become servants? They could not pay their debts.
  3. Why did God limit how long a Hebrew servant served? He remembered Israel had been slaves in Egypt, and He cares for the weak.
  4. What did eye for eye do? Kept punishment fair and limited revenge

Word bank: 1. laws; 2. God; 3. free; 4. fair

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

Grade 5The Book of the Covenant

  1. What is Exodus 21-23 often called? The Book of the Covenant (24:7)
  2. Name one way the law limited servanthood. Release in the seventh year, protection for women servants, or freedom for an injured servant
  3. How did the law treat kidnapping? As a very serious crime punished by death (21:16)
  4. What did Jesus say about some laws in Matthew 19:8? They were given because of the hardness of people's hearts.
  5. What was the purpose of eye for eye? To make penalties match the crime and limit revenge

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

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