Animals
ant in Genesis 2
ANT
This creature shows up in Genesis 2:5: “No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Genesis 2:5
“No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,”
What kids can learn
When you hear ant in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 2:5 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 2:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Noplantofthefieldwasyetintheearth,andnoofthefieldhadyetup;forYahwehGodhadnotittorainontheearth.Therewasnotamantotilltheground,