The Ready Answers Bible Memorization Program is designed to help you memorize Bible passages easily and quickly. It is based on many well-proven strategies for memorizing. From this page you can get our material designed to help prepare for tests on the Biblical book of Isaiah chapters 1-33. This should be helpful for tests such as the 2026 Pathfinder Bible Experience or Bible Bowl events. It is also helpful for any study of these chapters. On other web pages at this site, we also have memorization guides for other books of the Bible.

Before the NAD PBE leaders removed Isaiah 34-46 from this year's material, we prepared team assignments and some study guides for Isaiah 1-46.

We also have some materials for the Adventurer Bible Experience and the Adventurer Bible Games

Official PBE Information

We supply unofficial study guides. For the official rules and instructions to register a team, please go the the official PBE site for your division. Searching the web, the following SDA division-level pages:

• North-American Division Pathfinder PBE
• Trans-European Division Pathfinder PBE
• Trans-European Division Adventurer ABE

Help for PBE Coaches

If this is your first time coaching a PBE team, you will want to learn from the success of others. If you have been a successful coach, you can help other teams overcome their challenges by participating in PBE Coach discussion groups. Please join a discussion group:

• Telegram: Unofficial NAD PBE Coaches Forum http://t.me/nadpbecoachesforum
• For individual and group quizzes and games https://www.pbecoach.com

Fund Raising

Some teams plan for success by raising the funds early to ensure they will be able to go the the final NAD testing level. One very successful fund-raising idea is to have a 30-day verse memorizing event. Students can ask sponsors to contribute $2 per verse for 30 verses that they learn within those 30 days. Some people even pledge to give $4 per verse if they learn 60 verses. This not only funds the trips, it also can be a great incentive to get ready for the tests.

Team Organization

You will probably want to consider carefully who on the team should be responsible for which portions of this year’s material. Since some chapters are smaller than others and some books are smaller than others. This year there is very little similarity between verses, but if there are, they can be difficult for one person to be ready to answer questions on both. Assigning students to each learn the same number of chapters might not be the best strategy. The tables below show our recommended assignments. The goals we had were:

• Each assignment should be about the same size as the other assignments. This is to help spread the effort equally across the team members.
• To simplify remembering who is responsible for which verse, each student should generally be responsible for as few blocks of verses as possible. This is often in conflict with the other goals so a balance must be selected.
• We consider if the content of two verses is similar. We try to assign these verses to different team members, because many people have difficulty memorizing two passages that are nearly identical. An example of this in Isaiah is Isaiah 41:8 and Isaiah 44:1. They have almost the same message and use almost the same words, but they are not identical. In this situation, before the NAD PBE leaders removed these chapters from this years tests, I chose to reduce the number of verses in this student's section because this wasn't the only difficult pair of verses in the last few chapters of Isaiah before chapter 46.
• Each verse should be assigned to one student as a primary responsibility and to a second student as a secondary responsibility. This enables the students to consult with each other during the tests and help each other remember the details required to answer the questions. Also, if one student unexpectedly is not able to participate, the remaining team members are prepared to answer the questions.
• Each student should have a study partner that leverages the primary and secondary responsibilities. This way, pairs of students can study more of their own verses in a study session than they could studying as a full team for the same amount of time.

Suppose the team members are Alex, Adam, Lexi, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Noah. Also suppose that Alex and Lexi will be partners, Jeffrey and Adam will be partners, and that Jordan and Noah will be partners. The table below shows that Alex has the primary responsibility for Isaiah 1-5, and Lexi has secondary responsibility for these same chapters.

• Isaiah 9:1 contains the Hebrew word הִכְבִּ֑יד which can mean grievous, weighty, honorable, or glorious. NKJV translated it as "heavily oppressed", but in contrast RVR1995 uses "llenará de gloria" (filled with glory) and LSG uses "couvriront de gloire" (will cover with glory).
• In Isaiah 8:7, the phrase "Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up" is at the beginning of Isaiah 8:7 in NKJV, RVR1995, and WLC but at the end of Isaiah 8:6 in LSG.
• In Isaiah 26:19, the phrase "Together with my dead body" is not present in RVR1995 but is present in LSG and WLC.
• In Isaiah 27:4, the phrase in NKJV "Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle?" is similar to the phrase in RVR1995 "¿Quién pondrá contra mí en batalla espinos y cardos?" but it is different from LSG "Mais si je trouve à combattre des ronces et des épines" which means something like "But if I find brambles and thorns to fight"
• In Isaiah 27:6, the phrase in NKJV "Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob" matches WLC but in RVR1995 it is "Días vendrán cuando Jacob echará raíces" and in LSG it is "Dans les temps à venir, Jacob prendra racine". Both RVR1995 and LSG means something like "Days will come when Jacob will take root". Maybe these more closely match the septuagint.
• In Isaiah 27:8, the phrase in NKJV "You contended with it" comes from the Hebrew word תְּרִיבֶ֑נָּה which means "you will (contend, strive, quarrel) with it or with her" the septuagint represents this idea with the word μελετών which means meditate, plot, think about. In RVR1995 it is translated as "en sus vástagos" which means something like "in their offspring." in LSG it is " tu l'as châtié " which means something like "you have chastised him".
• In Isaiah 27:9, the phrase in NKJV "Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand." is translated in RVR1995 and LSG as something like "The idols of Astarte and the statues of the sun will never rise again." In RVR1995 it is "que no se levanten más los símbolos de Asera ni las imágenes del sol". In LSG it is "Les idoles d'Astarté et les statues du soleil ne se relèveront plus."
• In Isaiah 28:8, the phrase in NKJV "No place is clean" is similar to RVR1995 "no quedar lugar limpio." But this is different in LSG "Il n'y a plus de place." which means something like "There is no more room." The concept of "clean" is missing from LSG and WLC.
• In Isaiah 29:16, the words in KJV "Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;" is a little different in LSG and a little more different in RVR1995. In RVR1995 it is "Vuestra perversidad ciertamente será reputada como barro de alfarero." which means something like "Your wickedness will surely be reputed as potter's clay." LSG says "Quelle perversité est la vôtre! Le potier doit-il être considéré comme de l'argile, " meaning something like "How perverse is yours! Should the potter be considered as clay," These differences mostly come from the way הֶ֫פֶךְ is translated. This word is used only a few times in the Bible: here and twice in Ezekiel 16:34. The dictionary says it means "contrary, opposite, a difference, reversed, contrariness, perversity". These translations have chosen to emphasise different aspects of the original Hebrew.

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