Numbers 13 · For teachers and parents
Answer Key: Twelve Spies
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.
PreschoolGiant Grapes!
Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.
KindergartenBrave Caleb
Grade 1Faith, Not Fear
Order:
Grade 2Spying Out the Land
- What was the new land called? Canaan (circle)
- How many spies went? Twelve men (circle)
- How long did they look? Forty days (circle)
- How did they carry the grapes? Two men carried it on a pole.
- What did Caleb say? Let us go up now! We can do it!
Grade 3A Land of Milk and Honey
- Which tribe was Caleb from? Judah
- What did Moses call Hoshea? Joshua
- What did two men carry on a staff? One cluster of grapes
- What did they say the land flows with? Milk and honey
- What did Caleb say? Let's go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able.
Grade 4Two Kinds of Reports
- What did Moses ask the spies to bring back? Some fruit
- What did the fruit prove? The land was rich, just as God had said.
- What did the ten spies focus on? The strong people and fortified cities
- What did Caleb measure the problem against? God's promise
Word bank: 1. God; 2. Joshua; 3. forty; 4. Caleb
Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.
Grade 5Grasshoppers in Their Own Sight
- What questions did Moses tell the spies to answer? Whether the people were strong or weak, few or many, the cities camps or strongholds, and the land fat or lean
- Where did they cut the cluster of grapes? At the valley of Eshcol
- What did Caleb say? Let's go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
- How did the ten spies describe themselves? As grasshoppers in their own sight
- According to Hebrews 3:19, why could they not enter? Because of unbelief
Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.
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