Objects
seed in Genesis 47
SEED
This thing shows up in Genesis 47:19: “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh.…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real thing in a real place.
Genesis 47:19
“Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.””
What kids can learn
When you hear seed in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this thing in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 47:19 again tomorrow and ask what the thing is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 47:19
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whyshouldwediebeforeyoureyes,weandourBuyusandourlandforbread,andweandourwillbeservantstoPharaoh.Giveusseed,thatwemaylive,andnotdie,andthatthelandwon’tbedesolate.”