Everyday words
Bears
Start with Genesis 1:29, where the Bible uses the word bears in a real sentence: “God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:29
“God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”
2. Genesis 49:21
““Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.”
3. Exodus 21:4
“If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.”
4. Leviticus 12:2
““Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.”
5. Leviticus 12:5
“But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.”
6. Leviticus 12:7
“and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.”
7. Deuteronomy 25:6
“It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.”
8. Deuteronomy 28:57
“toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:29
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,Ihavegivenyoueveryherbyieldingseed,whichisonthesurfaceofalltheearth,andeverywhichfruityieldingseed.Itwillbeyourfood.