Everyday words
Appointed
Start with Genesis 4:15, where the Bible uses the word appointed in a real sentence: “Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:15
“Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.”
2. Genesis 24:44
“and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’”
3. Exodus 9:5
“Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.””
4. Exodus 23:15
“You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.”
5. Exodus 31:6
“Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:”
6. Exodus 34:18
““You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.”
7. Leviticus 23:4
““‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.”
8. Leviticus 23:37
““‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—”
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Practice Genesis 4:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
tohim,“ThereforewhoeverslaysCain,vengeancewillbetakenonhimsevenfold.”YahwehappointedasignforCain,sothatfindinghimwouldnotstrikehim.