Everyday words
Bearing
Start with Genesis 1:11, where the Bible uses the word bearing in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:11
“God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.”
2. Genesis 1:12
“The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.”
3. Genesis 16:2
“Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.”
4. Genesis 29:35
“She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.”
5. Genesis 30:9
“When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.”
6. Genesis 37:25
“They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”
7. Numbers 4:24
““This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:”
8. Numbers 4:47
“from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthegrass,herbsyieldingseeds,andfruittreesbearingaftertheirkind,withtheirseedsinit,ontheearth”;anditwasso.