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Numbers 10 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Silver Trumpets and Setting Out

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.

PreschoolBlow the Trumpets!

trumpetcloud and pillartabernaclepeopleark and covenant

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

KindergartenTime to Go

TRUMPET → picture 4CLOUD → picture 3ARK → picture 2WALK → picture 1

Grade 1Moving Out

Two silver trumpets. → picture 3Gather the people. → picture 5The cloud lifted. → picture 2March by your flag. → picture 4The ark went ahead. → picture 1

Order:

1. Make silver trumpets2. The cloud lifts3. Tribes set out in order4. Rise up, Yahweh

Grade 2Two Silver Trumpets

  1. What were the trumpets made of? Silver (circle)
  2. What happened when the priests blew them? Everyone came together at God's tent.
  3. Which tribe went first? Judah (circle)
  4. What did Moses pray when the ark went forward? Rise up, Lord! (circle)
  5. What did Moses know they needed? God with them (circle)
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Grade 3Rise Up, Yahweh

  1. Who blew the trumpets? The sons of Aaron
  2. What did an alarm tell the camps? To set out
  3. When did the cloud lift? On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year
  4. What did Moses say Hobab could be? Our eyes in the wilderness
  5. What did Moses pray when the ark set forward? Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered!
1: Make silver trumpets2: The cloud lifts3: Tribes set out in order4: Rise up, Yahweh
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Grade 4Leaving Sinai

  1. Name two uses of the silver trumpets. To gather the congregation and signal the camps to march
  2. Why did the Gershonites and Merarites go ahead? So the tabernacle could be set up before the Kohathites arrived
  3. What did Moses invite Hobab to share? The good God would do
  4. What did Israel's journey depend on? God's presence

Word bank: 1. silver; 2. God; 3. cloud; 4. Hobab; 5. ark

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

Grade 5Return, Yahweh

  1. What did blowing one trumpet signal? Only the leaders were called.
  2. What did God promise when they sounded the alarm in battle? They would be remembered before Yahweh and saved from their enemies.
  3. Which camp was the rear guard? Dan's camp
  4. What did Moses promise Hobab? To share whatever good God gave them
  5. Which psalm echoes Moses' prayer? Psalm 68:1
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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