Teach Me Your Ways: The Pentateuch
By Kay Arthur
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Kay Arthur is a four-time Gold Medallion award-winning author, member of NRB Hall of Fame, and beloved international Bible teacher. She and her husband, Jack, cofounded Precept Ministries International to teach people how to discover truth through inductive study. Precept provides teaching and training through study books, TV and radio programs, the Internet, and conferences in over 180 countries and 70 languages.
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Teach Me Your Ways - Kay Arthur
TEACH
ME YOUR
WAYS
KAY ARTHUR
HARVEST HOUSE™ PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Except where otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this book are taken from the New American Standard Bible®, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
Except where otherwise indicated, all maps and charts in this book, as well as the How to Get Started
portion of the introductory material, have been adapted and condensed from The New Inductive Study Bible, Copyright © 2000 by Precept Ministries International.
Cover by Koechel Peterson & Associates, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
The New Inductive Study Series
TEACH ME YOUR WAYS
Copyright © 1994 by Precept Ministries International
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arthur, Kay, 1933-
Teach me your ways / Kay Arthur.
p. cm. — (The new inductive study series)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-0805-4
ISBN-10: 0-7369-0805-6
1. Bible. O.T. Pentateuch—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Bible. O.T.
Pentateuch—Study and teaching. I. Title. II. Series: Arthur, Kay, 1933-
The new inductive study series.
BS1225.2.A77 1994
222’.1’007—dc20
93-33925
CIP
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America.
06 07 08 09 10 / BP / 10 9 8 7 6
CONTENTS
How to Get Started
GENESIS
And All Things Were Created by Him and for Him
Weeks One Through Eight
EXODUS
I Am Everything and Anything You’ll Ever Need
General Instructions
Weeks One Through Ten
LEVITICUS
Be Holy Even as I Am Holy
General Instructions
Weeks One Through Seven
NUMBERS
These Things Happened as an Example to Us
General Instructions
Weeks One Through Six
DEUTERONOMY
This Is Life: Loving God and Obeying Him
Weeks One Through Six
Notes
Notes for Personal Study
Books in the New Inductive Study Series
Harvest House Books by Kay Arthur
Changing the Way People Study God’s Word
Digging Deeper
About the Author
TEACH ME YOUR WAYS
HOW TO GET STARTED…
Sometimes it’s hard to read directions. You simply want to get started, and only if all else fails will you read the directions. I understand, but in this case, don’t do it! These instructions are part of getting started, and they will help you greatly.
FIRST
As you study the books of the Pentateuch you will need four things in addition to this book:
1. A Bible that you are willing to mark in. The marking is essential. An ideal Bible for this purpose is The New Inductive Study Bible (NISB). The NISB is in a single-column text format with larger, easy-to-read type, which is ideal for marking. The margins around the text are wide for note-taking.
The NISB also has instructions for studying each book of the Bible, but it does not contain any commentary on the text, nor is it compiled from any theological stance. Its purpose is to teach you how to discern truth for yourself through the inductive method of study. (The various charts and maps that you will find in this study guide are taken from the NISB.)
Whatever Bible you use, just know you will need to mark in it, which brings me to the second item you will need . . .
2. A fine-point, four-color ballpoint pen or various colored fine-point pens that you can use to write in your Bible. The Micron pens are best for this purpose. Office supply stores should have these.
3. Colored pencils or an eight-color Pentel pencil.
4. A composition book or loose-leaf notebook for working on your assignments and recording your insights.
SECOND
Though you will be given specific instructions for each day’s study, there are basic things you need to know, do, and/or remember as you move through each book chapter by chapter.
1. As you read each chapter, train yourself to ask the 5 W’s and an H
: who, what, when, where, why, and how. Asking questions like these will help you see exactly what the Word of God has to say. When you interrogate the text with the 5 W’s and an H, you would ask questions like this:
a. What is this chapter about?
b. Who are the main characters?
c. When does this event or teaching take place?
d. Where does this happen?
e. Why is this being done or said?
f. How did it happen?
2. The when
of events or teachings is very important and should be marked in an easily recognizable way in your Bible. I do this by putting a clock in the margin of my NISB. You may want to underline or color the references to time in one specific color.
Remember, time may be expressed in several different ways: by mentioning an actual year, month, day, or by mentioning an event such as a feast, a year of a person’s reign, etc. Time can also be indicated by words such as then, when, afterwards, at this time, etc.
3. There are certain key words you will want to mark in a special way in the text of your Bible. This is the purpose of the colored pencils and the colored pen. Developing the habit of marking your Bible in this way will make a significant difference in the way you study and in how much you remember.
A key word is an important word that is used by the author repeatedly in order to convey his message to his reader. There are certain key words or phrases that will show up throughout the book as a whole, while others will be concentrated in certain chapters or segments of the book. When you mark a key word, also mark its pronouns (he, his, she, her, it, we, they, us, our, you, them, their) and its synonyms.
For instance, one of the key words you will mark in Genesis is covenant. I color the word covenant the same way throughout my NISB. I color it red and box it in yellow.
You need to devise a color-coding system for these words so that when you look at a page of your Bible, you will instantly see where a particular word is used. When you start marking key words in various colors and symbols, it is easy to forget how you are marking certain words. Therefore, you may wish to use the bottom portion of the perforated card in the back of this book to write your key words on. Mark the words the way you plan to mark them in your Bible and then use the card as a bookmark.
Marking words for easy identification can be done by colors, symbols, or a combination of colors and symbols. However, colors are easier to distinguish than symbols. If I use symbols, I keep them very simple. For example, I color repent over it also. The symbol conveys the meaning of repent: a change of mind.
When I mark the members of the Godhead (which I do not always mark), I color every reference to the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit in yellow.