Your ShelfYour Projects

BIBLE READINGS WITH FAMILIES

3%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 22.

Read the full edition

BIBLE READINGS WITH FAMILIES.

By Mrs. S. N. Haskell

The Giving of the Law.

MRS. S. N. HASKELL.
I. WHAT was the greatest event during the first twenty-six hundred years of this world's history? Deut. 4:32, 33, 36.
2. How many witnessed the scene? Vs. 10, 11.
Counting women, children, and old persons, there must have been about three millions of people. Num. 1:45-47; Ex. 12:38.
3. What preparation was made? Ex. 19:10-14.
4. What took place on the morning of the third day? V. 16.
5. How did Mt. Sinai appear? V. 18; 24:16, 17.
6. Who came down upon the mount? Ex. 19:20; Ps. 68:17; Acts 7:37, 38.
7. How was the whole earth affected? Ex. 19:18; Ps. 68:8; Heb. 12:26.
8. What did the people hear? Deut. 4:12.
9. What was spoken by the Lord? V. 13.
10. Did the people hear the Lord speak any other words than the Ten Commandments? Deut. 5:22.
II. Is this a subject that should especially be taught to the children as well as to adults? Deut. 4:9, 10.
12. What was Moses commanded to do? Ex. 24:12.
13. What did he receive? Ex. 31:18.
14. How was the law written? Id.
15. Could it be erased?—No; it was graven. Ex: 32:16.
16. Who made the tables? Id.
17. What happened to these tables? V. 19.
18. Who made the second tables? Deut. 10:1.
19. Who wrote on the second tables? Vs. 1-4.
20. What was written on them? V. 4.
21. Where were the tables placed? V. 1, 5.
22. Where was the ark kept? Heb. 9:3, 4.
23. Who communed with the children of Israel from above the mercy seat, or lid of the ark? Lev. 16:2; Ex. 25:22.
The ark, on account of the law, was regarded as the most sacred object in the sanctuary. None except those appointed by God were to touch it. Num. 4:5, 15.
Study these texts until the scenes of that day are vividly impressed upon your own mind, then, with the Lord's help, give the reading to your neighbors.
Do not introduce the Sabbath question into the reading; but try, by God's help, to impress their minds with the sacredness of the whole law, which will be a good foundation for further study.