Objects
bed in Exodus 21
BED
This thing shows up in Exodus 21:18: ““If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real thing in a real place.
Exodus 21:18
““If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;”
What kids can learn
When you hear bed in Exodus, remember the sentence around it. God put this thing in the story on purpose.
Read Exodus 21:18 again tomorrow and ask what the thing is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Exodus 21:18
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Ifmenquarrelandonestrikesthewithastone,orhisfist,andhedoesn’tdie,butistobed;