Everyday words
Affliction
Start with Genesis 16:11, where the Bible uses the word affliction in a real sentence: “Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 16:11
“Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.”
2. Genesis 29:32
“Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.””
3. Genesis 31:42
“Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.””
4. Genesis 41:52
“The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.””
5. Exodus 3:7
“Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.”
6. Exodus 3:17
“and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’”
7. Exodus 4:31
“The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.”
8. Deuteronomy 26:7
“Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 16:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahweh’stoher,“Behold,youarewithchild,andwillbearason.YoushallcallhisIshmael,becauseYahwehhasheardyouraffliction.