Everyday words
Alone
Start with Genesis 2:18, where the Bible uses the word alone in a real sentence: “Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:18
“Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.””
2. Genesis 32:24
“Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.”
3. Genesis 44:20
“We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’”
4. Genesis 47:26
“Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.”
5. Exodus 4:26
“So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.”
6. Exodus 14:12
“Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.””
7. Exodus 18:14
“When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?””
8. Exodus 18:18
“You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 2:18
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God“Itisnotgoodforthemantobealone.Iwillmakehimahelpertohim.”