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Numbers 23 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Balaam Blesses Israel

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 Says Bless

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

KindergartenGod Blesses

BLESS → picture 4HILL → picture 3TENTS → picture 1WORD → picture 2

Grade 1God Never Lies

Seven altars were built. → picture 5They went up a hill. → picture 1God gave Balaam words. → picture 4Balaam blessed Israel. → picture 2The king was angry. → picture 3

Order:

1. Seven altars built2. God gives Balaam words3. Balaam blesses Israel4. God does not lie

Grade 2A Blessing, Not a Curse

  1. How many altars did Balak build? Seven (circle)
  2. What did Balak want? Balaam to say bad words over God's people
  3. What did Balaam do instead? He blessed God's people. (circle)
  4. How did Balak feel? Angry (circle)
  5. Who cannot lie? God (circle)
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Grade 3God Is Not a Man That He Should Lie

  1. What was offered on every altar? A bull and a ram
  2. What did Balaam ask about cursing? How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
  3. What did Balak complain? I took you to curse my enemies, and you have blessed them!
  4. Where did Balak take Balaam the second time? The top of Pisgah
  5. Why couldn't Balaam reverse the blessing? God had blessed, and God does not lie.
1: Seven altars built2: God gives Balaam words3: Balaam blesses Israel4: God does not lie
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Grade 4A Blessing No One Can Reverse

  1. What did Balak believe would work? The right place and the right sacrifices
  2. Why did Balak move Balaam to Pisgah? He thought a different view might work.
  3. How is God different from people according to the oracle? He does not lie or change His mind.
  4. Who did Balaam say was with Israel? Yahweh

Word bank: 1. Balak; 2. word; 3. curse; 4. God; 5. lie

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

Grade 5God Is Not a Man

  1. How did Balak treat blessing and cursing? Like a technique he could control
  2. How did the first oracle describe Israel? A people that dwells alone, too many to count like the dust
  3. What did the second oracle say about God? God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent.
  4. What did Balak finally say? Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
  5. Which verse in Romans connects to this chapter? Romans 8:31
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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