Animals
ox in Deuteronomy 5
OX
This creature shows up in Deuteronomy 5:21: ““You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Deuteronomy 5:21
““You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.””
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 5:21 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Deuteronomy 5:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Youshallnotcovetyourwife.Neithershallyoudesireyourhouse,hisfield,orhismaleservant,orhisfemaleservant,hisox,orhisoranythingthatisyourneighbor’s.”