Objects
honey in Exodus 3
HUN-ee
This thing shows up in Exodus 3:8: “I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real thing in a real place.
Exodus 3:8
“I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.”
What kids can learn
When you hear honey in Exodus, remember the sentence around it. God put this thing in the story on purpose.
Read Exodus 3:8 again tomorrow and ask what the thing is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Exodus 3:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IhavecomedowntodeliverthemoutofthehandoftheEgyptians,andtobringthemupoutofthatlandtoagoodandlargeland,toalandflowingwithmilkandhoney;totheplaceofthetheHittite,theAmorite,thetheHivite,andthe