Animals
ox in Deuteronomy 14
OX
This creature shows up in Deuteronomy 14:4: “These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Deuteronomy 14:4
“These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,”
What kids can learn
When you hear ox in Deuteronomy, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Deuteronomy 14:4 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Deuteronomy 14:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
aretheyoumayeat:theox,thesheep,thegoat,