Meet Hagar, The Mother of Ishmael

Meet Hagar, The Mother of Ishmael

In Genesis 16, we meet a woman named Hagar.  Hagar was a handmaiden of Sarai (later known as Sarah).  Sarah had grown impatient while waiting on God to give her a child so she decided to wait no longer.  She took matters into her own hands.  She told her husband, Abram, to go to Hagar to sleep with her so that she could build a family through Hagar.  This was a common practice in those times. Everything that belonged to the maidservants and/or slaves belonged also to their masters, even the children. Therefore, if Hagar had a baby, the baby would also be Sarai's baby. Abram did as he was told and Hagar conceived a baby.

When Hagar realized she was pregnant, she began to despise Sarai.  When Sarai realized Hagar despised her, she blamed the whole thing on Abram.  Then, she mistreated Hagar.  She was so mean to Hagar that Hagar ran away.

An angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert.  The angel told Hagar to return to Sarai and then he made her a promise.  He told Hagar that he would increase her descendants so much that there would be too many to count.  Her son would be named Ishmael for God has heard Hagar's misery.  Ishmael means "the God who hears."

Sarai called the Lord "The God Who Sees Me."  The well where the Angel of the Lord spoke to Hagar is named Beer Bahai Roi which means "the well of Him who lives and sees me."

Hagar obeyed.  I find this part interesting and inspiring.  Hagar was pregnant by her mistress's husband. She had been badly mistreated. She had ran away.  She's was probably exhausted, lonely, and afraid.  

Yet she obeyed.

Life Lessons

1.  Don't blame others for your bad decisions.  Sarai blamed Abram for the soured relationship between herself and Hagar, but it was Sarai's idea for Abram to father a child by Hagar in the first place.

2.  Be patient.  Wait for the Lord.  This all started because Sarai wasn't willing to wait on God.  She took matters into her own hands and created a mess.

3.  Remember that God is a God who hears.

4.  Remember that God is a God who sees.

5.  Be obedient.  Hagar, in her condition, could have kept running, but she obeyed God and returned to the very place where she had been so badly treated.

Just as God heard and saw Hagar's misery, He hears and sees you too.

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He sees me.  Genesis 16:13

More Lessons for Learning the Story of Hagar

The God Who Sees Me by Moments in Faith

Teach the Kids About Hagar

Waiting on the Lord:  A Lesson from Sarai and Hagar from Ministry to Children

Sunday School Activities About Hagar and Ishmael from Children's Worship Bulletins

Hagar, Sarai's Servant by BibleWise

Hagar and Ishmael Craft by Jesus Without Language

If you would like to learn more about Hagar and other women of the Bible, the good ones and the bad ones, I recommend Wicked Women of the Bible by Ann Spangler.

Wicked Women of the Bible by Ann Spangler

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In my Coloring Through the Bible Series (using my Beautiful Word Coloring Bible), we are now brought to Genesis 13.   At the end of Genesis 12, we read that Abram had lied about his relationship with Sarai so the Pharaoh had taken her as his own wife.  This disaster resulted in famine in the land of Egypt.  When the Pharaoh learned about Abram's deception, he sent them away.  In fact, Pharaoh's words were "Now then, here is your wife.  Take her and go!"  

Abram and Lot

Now in Genesis 13, Abram traveled from Egypt up to the Negev.  He took his wife and all his possessions.  Abram's nephew, Lot, was also with him.  We learn that Abram had become very wealthy.  Abram went back to the place where he had been earlier, the place where he had first built an alter.

Abram called on the name of the Lord. (Genesis 13:3)

Lot had is own possessions but the land where they settled could not support Abram, Sarai, and all their possessions and also support Lot and all of his possessions.  

Abram and Lot had a lot of stuff!

Eventually, Abram's herders and Lot's herders began to argue with each other but Abram didn't want he and his nephew to argue.  He didn't want their herders to argue either.  Abram told Lot that there was plenty of land so if Lot would take his possessions to the right, Abram would take his to the left or if Lot wanted to take his possessions to the left, Abram would take his to the right.  So they separated.

Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan toward the East which was great land but it was not far from the city of Sodom where the people were evil and were sinning greatly against God.  Abram settled in the land of Canaan. 

After Lot left Abram, God said to Abram:

"Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.  All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.  Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land for I am going it to you."

So, Abram went to live near the trees of Mamre at Hebron.  There, he built an alter to the Lord.

Do you see a pattern with Abram?  Abram was always faithfully calling on the name of the Lord and wherever he lived, he built an alter to the Lord.  Abram was faithful to his God.

Here is a short lesson for adults about how this story of Abram and Lot relates to selfishness. 

Let's go back to Lot for a minute or two.  Remember that Lot had settled near the city of Sodom where the people were wicked and sinful.  In the beginning of Genesis 14, we learn the there had been a 13 year war in the area.  The region had been subject to King Kedorlaomer for 12 years.  In the 13th year, some of the kings rebelled.  In the 14th year, King Kedorlaomer and those allied with him defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in Seir.  Then they turned back and went to Kadesh and conquered the whole area of the Amalekites as well as the Amorites in Hazezon Tamar.  Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela marched and drew battle lines in the valley of Siddim against King Kedorlaomer, King Tidal, King Amraphel, and King Arioch (4 kings against 5).

One Side:

King Amraphel of Shinar

King Arioch of Ellasar

King Kedorlaomer of Elam

King Tidal of Goyim

Other Side:

These forces had been subject to King Kedorlaomer but in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

King Bera of Sodom

King Birsha of Gomorrah

King Shinab of Admah

King Shemeber of Zeboyim

King Zoar of Bela

The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled.  As they did so, some of their men fell into tar pits which were plentiful in the valley of Siddim.  The rest of their men fled to the hills.  The four kings allied with King Kedorlaomer seized all goods in Sodom and Gomorrah.  

They also carried off Abram's nephew, Lot, and all of Lot's possessions.  Remember that Lot was living near Sodom.

At least one man escaped who ran to tell Abram about Lot's predicament.  Abram gathered 318 trained men who had been born in his household.  They traveled as far as Dan.  During the night, Abram divided his men and prepared to attack the kings who had taken Lot.  Abram and his men followed the kings and their men as far as Hobah which was located north of Damascus. 

Abram defeated the kings, received all the goods, and rescued his nephew, Lot, and his household. 

After Abram had defeated the kings allied with King Kedorlaomer, the king of Sodom went to meet Abram.  Then the king of Salem and a priest of God, King Melchizedek, brought our bread and wine and blessed Abram saying:

"Blessed be Abram by God Most High

Creator of Heaven and Earth

And praise be to God Most High

Who delivered your enemies into your hand."

Then Abram gave King Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

The king of Sodom wanted Abram to give him the people and for Abram to keep the goods but Abram responded:

"With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of Heaven and Earth, that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, 'I made Abram rich.'  I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me - Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre.  Let then have their share."

It is after this that God makes a covenant with Abram.  God tells Abram:

"Do not be afraid, Abram.

I am your shield,

Your very great reward."

At the time, Abram had no children so his only heir was one of his servants, Eliezer of Damascus.  But God told Abram:

'This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.  He took him outside and said, 'Look up at the sky and count the stars - if indeed you can count them.'  Then God said to Abram, 'So shall your offspring be."

Abram believed the Lord and he credited it to Him as righteousness.

In the rest of Genesis 15, God tells Abram that for four hundred years, his descendants will be strangers in a county not their own.  In that land, they would be enslaved and mistreated.  But God assures Abram that He will punish the nation that enslaves his descendants and that eventually they would come out with great possessions.  God promises Abram that he will go to his ancestors in peace and die at a good old age.  God promised Abram that He would give his descendants the land from the Wadi of Egypt to the great Euphrates river - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.

Teach the Kids!

Here is a short lesson for kids about how the story of Abram and Lot relates to selfishness.

Do your kids love to color?  You'll find free Abram and Lot coloring pages here at Coloring.WS, a DLTK site for kids.

Here is an Abram and Lot Word Search for kids.

More Abram and Lot Learning Activities for Kids by DLTK for Kids.

Abram and Lot Pick Land, a Lesson from Bible Fun for Kids

Abram Lets Lot Choose First, a Pop Up Craft by Sabbath School Crafts

Break this Coded Message to Learn What Land Lot Chose by BibleWise.

Here is a short video lesson about how Abram rescues Lot.

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From Adam to Noah 

We are still in the very beginning stages of reading through the Bible in chronological order.  Today, I'm reading Genesis, chapters 5-8.

From Adam to Noah

The first verse takes my breath away.  When God made mankind, he made them in the likeness of God (Genesis 5:1).  I read it over and over again, but it never loses its awe.  Of all the things God created during the 7 days of creation, of all the animals and all living things, He made us, you and me, in His own likeness.  What an honor!

He made them male and female and He blessed them.  (Genesis 5:2)

The rest of chapter 5 is a genealogy from Adam to Noah. The sons of Adam and Eve were Cain, Abel, and Seth.  We already know that Cain killed Abel.  (Genesis 4:8)

Cain's line is as follows:

Cain
Enoch
Irad
Mehujael
Methushael
Lamech

In Genesis 4:23-24, we learn that Lemech confesses to killing a man.  He wrote to his wife that if Cain had been avenged 7 times, then Lemech would be avenged seventy seven times.

From there, we move on to the third son of Adam and Eve.  Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born.  (Genesis 5:3)

Noah is born from the line of Seth as follows:

Adam
Seth
Enosh
Denan
Mahalalel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah

Here's a chart to help us keep the genealogy straight.

Adam died at age 930.  His great great great great grandson, Enoch, lived 365 years.  Enoch walked faithfully with God for 365 years and then God took him away.  Enoch did not know an earthly death.(Genesis 5:23-24)

I think it's a little odd that we grow up hearing the story of Cain and Abel, but rarely heard anything about Seth.  We definitely should pay attention to the story of Cain and Abel because there are lessons to be learned from those two brothers, but little is said about Seth.  However, it was Seth's line of descendants who would be saved from the flood waters to come and repopulate the earth.

The Story of Noah

Noah was 500 years old when he became a father. (Genesis 5:32)  His sons were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

When the human population began to increase on the earth, the Lord saw how wicked humans had become.  Their thoughts were evil all the time.  (Genesis 6:1-5)

The next verse is so heartbreaking.  The sadness of it reaches to my core.

God regretted that He had ever created humans and His heart was deeply troubled.  (Genesis 6:6)

So the Lord said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created - and with them the animals, the birds, and the creatures that move along the ground - for I regret that I have made them." - Genesis 6:7

There was one hope for humans, Noah.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. - Genesis 6:8

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his day.  He walked faithfully with God.  God told Noah that He was going to wipe the earth of people because of their wickedness and violence.  He told Noah to build an ark and He told Noah exactly how to build it, even the measurements.  (Genesis 6:9-17)

God established a covenant with Noah. 

But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark - you and your sons and your wife and your son's wives with you.  You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.  Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.  You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them. - Genesis 6:18-21

The next verse if very important and we can learn so much from it.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him. - Genesis 6:22

In the first verses of Genesis, chapter 7, God continues His instructions to Noah.

Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.  Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.  Seven days from now, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. - Genesis 7:1-4

The next verse is again an important one - a repeat of Genesis 6:22.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. - Genesis 7:5

When the flood waters started, Noah was 600 years old.  (Genesis 7:6)

Everyone was inside the ark, so who closed the door?  God did.  The Lord shut them in the ark.  (Genesis 7:16)

Again, God shows his mercy.  After Adam and Eve had sinned, God punished them, but He made them clothes to protect them (Genesis 3:21).  Now, after the human race had become violent and evil, God spared Noah, who was a righteous man, and his family along with a number of animals.  Then, God closed the door of the ark to protect them (Genesis 7:16)

God is a righteous God who punishes disobedience, but He is also a loving God who rewards faithfulness.

God carried out His plan to flood the earth to destroy humans and animals, save only those in the ark with Noah.  Then, God stopped the rain and springs from the earth.  He caused a wind to blow and the waters steadily receded.  Finally, the ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat.  (Genesis 8:1-4)

Months after the rain had started flooding the earth and finally the waters had receded, Noah sent out a raven from the ark.  The raven kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.  Noah sent out a dove to see if waters had receded from the ground, but the dove couldn't find a place to perch because the waters had not receded enough so it returned to Noah.  A week later, Noah sent the dove out again.  This time it returned with an olive leaf.  Seven days later, Noah sent the dove out again, but the dove did not return.  Noah was 601 years old by the time the waters had dried up from the earth.  Noah's family spent a year on the ark.  Finally, Noah and his family, along with the animals, could exit the ark and move onto dry ground.  (Genesis 8:6-19)

What was the first thing Noah did?

He built an alter to the Lord!

He took some of the clean animals and clean birds and sacrificed a burnt offering on the alter.

The Lord smelled the aroma of Noah's offering.  He was pleased so He said in His heart:

"Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.  And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease." - Genesis 8:21-22

Reading through these 4 chapters, I marvel at God's justness and His mercy.  Looking back at Genesis 8:21, God knows human hearts are evil from childhood.  Yet, because of Noah's faithfulness and strict obedience to God, God promises to never destroy again as He did in the days of Noah.

God knows my heart as well as he knew the hearts of humans of that day - as well as He knew the heart of Noah.  Yet, He still loves me.

God knows your heart too, yet He loves you.  He desires a relationship with you through His son, Jesus Christ.  You can learn more about that here.

 Teaching the Children

Here are several more resources for learning more about Adam and the story of Noah.

 

 

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From Adam to Noah 

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The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel)

The image of Cain and Abel is my own photograph taken at the Creation Museum.

The Fall of Man

Today, I'm reading Genesis, chapters 3 and 4.

As and adult, I am drawn to particular parts of this story that I didn't think much about as a child. In a church ladies' Bible study, I was drawn to Genesis 3:8.

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Genesis 3:8

It was the first part that got our attention. Adam and Eve recognized the sound of God walking in the garden. It occurred to us that this was a common sound to them. They must have been accustomed to walking with God in the garden in the cool of the day . . . walking WITH God here on Earth. What an amazing custom of fellowship with God they must have enjoyed . . . until they disobeyed Him.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’” The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. - Genesis 3:1-8 

In my Bible, I underlined a key phrase and a key word in the passage above.  Eve saw that the fruit was pleasing to the eye and it was desirable for gaining wisdom.

We are not so different from Eve.  Oh how those words snare us today just as they snared Eve back in the Garden of Eden.  Not everything that is "pleasing to the eye" is pleasing to God.  Just because something is desirable doesn't mean it is God's plan for our lives. 

Another thing that, for some reason, never caught my attention until more recently is found in Genesis 3:21. I don't know why but I always thought that Adam and Eve made their own garments after they allowed sin to enter into their lives. We learn in Genesis 3:21 that God Himself made garments for Adam and Eve.

The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 

God loved Adam and Eve. He loved them before their rebellion and He loved them after. Adam and Eve's actions resulted in negative consequences, the fall of man, but God still provided protection for them.

When our kids disappoint us, we must love them like God loved Adam and Eve.

When our kids disappoint us, their actions result in negative consequences perhaps in the form of punishment, but we still provide for them because we love them. God loves us in the same way that we love our children. When we disappoint Him, we suffer negative consequences, but He continues to love us and provide for us.

Cain and Abel

If you grew up in church, you've probably been reading the story of Cain and Abel since you were a child.  Cain and Abel were brothers, sons of Adam and Eve.  Abel kept flocks.  Cain worked the soil.  Cain and Abel both brought an offering before the Lord.  Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and God was pleased.  Cain brought an offering, but God was not pleased with Cain's offering.   Cain became angry because God found favor in Abel's offering, but not his own so Cain killed his brother, Abel.

I remember the story as a simple one from childhood but this story is far more complicated.  Jealousy is not a simple matter.  Jealousy breeds resentment. It causes us to lose control of our emotions.  Left unchecked, it can cause us to lose control of our actions too.  Jealousy changes people.  Jealousy resulted in murder in the case of Cain and Abel.  Jealousy can result in the same today as it did then.  

What does the Bible say about jealousy?

Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
The very flame of the Lord. - Solomon 8:6

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. - James 3:14-15

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant. - 1 Corinthians 13:4

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. - James 3:16

Pay close attention to this next verse.  Paul did not sugarcoat the consequences of a jealous heart in his letter to the Galatians.  He places jealousy in the same category as immorality, sorcery, drunkenness, and others.  Read the last part of this verse carefully.  Paul warns that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.  

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. - Galatians 5:19-21

This doesn't mean that you will lose your salvation or go to Hell if you felt jealous over a situation yesterday.  Remember that we all guilty of sin (Romans 3:23).  The danger is when our lifestyle indicates that we are living a life without conviction and repentance.  We know believers by the fruit they bear.  

You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits. - Matthew 7:16-20

Cain suffered severe consequences for his sins.  God told Cain that the ground would no longer yield crops for him.  He would become a wanderer on the Earth.  

Even as God revealed His punishment for Cain, He showed compassion for Cain.  Cain was afraid that whoever found him would kill him, but God told Cain that anyone who killed him would suffer vengeance 7 times over.  Then, God placed a mark on Cain to protect him.  Then, Cain left God's presence and wen to the land of Nod which was East of Eden.

If jealousy is something that you are dealing with right now, I urge you to hand the situation over to the Lord.  Let Him have it all.  

If you are not a believer, then I urge you to go back and read Galatians 5:19-21 again.  Then, know God loves you and wants you to know Him.  Learn more about how to receive Jesus and know God personally here.

This post is part of my Coloring Through Genesis Series.  I'm using my new Beautiful Word Coloring Bible.  I love it because it leaves plenty of space for notes and I enjoy coloring the pages.  I look forward to using this Bible as I continue through the book of Genesis.

 

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The 7 Days of Creation

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. – Genesis 1:1

For a long time, I’ve wanted to read through the Bible in chronological time order. Reading in time order will help me understand the stories on a deeper level so I’ll gain a better understanding of Biblical truths all the way through from the 7 days of creation in Genesis to the book of Revelation. I have several different versions of the Bible. I loved my Ryrie Study Bible in the NASB version through high school and college. I still have that Bible (and several childhood Bibles). Now, I use a large print NASB version, a single column ESV journaling Bible, a Message version, a Chronological Bible, and most recently, a Large Print Beautiful Word NIV version. I enjoy my time in all of these versions, but I like the way the Beautiful Word version draws me into the scriptures and makes me want to spend more time in God’s Word. If you’re an adult who enjoys coloring, you’ll love the Beautiful Word Bible.

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This week, I’ve enjoyed coloring the scriptures in the margins as I reviewed the 7 days of creation and the origin of man.  Today, I'm reading Genesis 1:1 - 2:25.

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Color coding the 7 days of creation helps me remember what God created on which particular day.

On the first day, God created light. He created night and day.

On the second day, God created the sky.

On the third day, God created land and vegetation.

On the fourth day, God created the sun, moon, and stars.

On the fifth day, God created birds and sea animals.

On the sixth day, God created animals and humans.

On the seventh day, God rested.

7 Days of Creation:  Adam and Eve

It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him. Genesis 2:18 

In Genesis 2, we learn that God brought all the animals to Adam so that Adam could name them, animals of all kinds. This is when God saw that it was not good for Adam to be alone so He created Eve.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Genesis 2:21-22

Now we have the first marriage.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Genesis 2:24

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7 Days of Creation for Kids

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I’ve created a few simple activities to help kids learn about the 7 days of creation.  Included are the following:

*A matching sheet.  Your child will draw a line from the day of creation to a picture representing what was created on that day.

*Two Bible memory verse cards.  Cut out the cards so that your child can continue to review the verses.

*A writing practice page.  Your child will practice writing the names of Adam and Eve.

*Sequencing Cards.  Cut the pictures out.  Practice placing them in the order they were created.

*Letter Recognition Cards:  Cut out the cards.  Practice the letters A (Adam), B (Beginning), C (Cain), D (Day), and E (Eve)

Click here to get your free activities in a PDF version. 

 

  7 Days of Creation Coloring Page

 

OOOPS!  I had intended to include the following coloring page in the PDF file above.  Hover over the picture.  Right Click.  Save to your computer.  Print and color.

 

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More Bible Learning for Your Kids

Usborne Books offers several Bible story books your kids will love.

Illustrated Bible Stories

A fully illustrated collection of stories from the Bible, retold for young readers. Including Joseph and the Dreams, The Story of Baby Jesus, The Easter Story, Jonah and the Whale, Noah's Ark and more. A beautiful gift book that children will love to receive on any special occasion. Check it out here.

 Bible Stories

This engaging collection of Bible stories has been written, with the help of a language expert, for young children who are just starting to read. Each story is told word for word, with delightful sound effects, on the CD included with this book. By following the words across the page as they hear them, beginner readers will gain confidence and soon be able to achieve the pleasure and satisfaction of reading a whole story by themselves.  Check it out here.

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