OT Mini Lesson 2 St Peters

This afternoon I have once again been at St Peters School with the year 5/6 doing OT Mini.  This week it was the Moses story.  After a quick recap of the events of last week's stories and a run through of the hand signs so far, I started the book of Exodus.  I explained that as the page is turned from Genesis to Exodus 430 years of time goes by.  I cover the birth and early childhood of Moses, then his running away at the age of 40 after killing an Egyptian.  His encounter with God at the burning bush 40 years later and God telling him to go back and speak to Pharaoh.  Talking through the 10 plagues and on to Passover - Moses then leads the people out into the desert.  I cover the giving of the law and building of the tabernacle, the counting of the people and the 12 spies that go and check the land out.  However as the people decided to follow the advice of the 10 spies that lied Moses led the people for a further 40 years in the wilderness.  After this Moses had to repeat the law giving to the new generation of people.  Next week we look at Joshua, the judges and Ruth and cover another 400 or so years.