📖 Unit 1: God's Plan to Rescue Israel
A 7-week Exodus curriculum for elementary kids covering Moses' birth, the burning bush, and God's call to rescue Israel.
Pharaoh's Cruel Plan
Exodus 1
A new Pharaoh who did not know Joseph rises to power and turns the Israelites into slaves, then orders the death of every newborn Hebrew boy. But the more Egypt oppresses God's people, the more they multiply, showing that no human plan can stop what God has promised.
View LessonBaby Moses in the Basket
Exodus 2:1-10
Moses's mother hides him for three months and then places him in a basket on the Nile, and Pharaoh's own daughter pulls him out of the water and raises him in the palace. God uses the very house of the enemy to protect the man who will lead his people to freedom.
View LessonMoses Chooses God
Exodus 2:11-25
Moses sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave, kills the Egyptian, and flees to Midian when the act is discovered. There he marries Zipporah and settles as a shepherd, but God has not forgotten his people crying out in slavery.
View LessonMoses and the Burning Bush
Exodus 3
God appears to Moses in a bush that burns but is not consumed, reveals his personal name I AM, and calls Moses to go back to Egypt and lead his people out. This lesson shows kids that God sees suffering, he hears cries, and he always sends a rescuer.
View LessonMoses Confronts Pharaoh
Exodus 4-5
Moses returns to Egypt and demands that Pharaoh let God's people go, backing the words with miraculous signs. Pharaoh refuses and makes the Israelites' work harder, teaching kids that obedience to God sometimes makes things harder before it gets better.
View LessonGod Renews His Promise
Exodus 6
God responds to Israel's discouragement by restating his covenant name, Yahweh, and his commitment to redeem them with an outstretched arm. This lesson shows kids that God does not forget his promises even when circumstances look hopeless.
View LessonAaron's Rod Becomes a Serpent
Exodus 7:1-13
Moses and Aaron stand before Pharaoh and Aaron throws down his staff, which becomes a snake that swallows the magicians' snakes. Pharaoh's heart stays hard, setting up the ten plagues that will prove once and for all who the true God is.
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