Everyday words
Afflict
Start with Genesis 15:13, where the Bible uses the word afflict in a real sentence: “He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:13
“He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.”
2. Genesis 31:50
“If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.””
3. Exodus 1:11
“Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.”
4. Leviticus 16:29
““It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:”
5. Leviticus 16:31
“It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.”
6. Leviticus 23:27
““However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.”
7. Numbers 24:24
“But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.””
8. Numbers 29:7
““‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 15:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
HetoAbram,“Knowforsurethatyouroffspringwillliveasforeignersinalandthatisnottheirs,andwillservethem.Theyafflictfourhundredyears.