Everyday words
Bereaved
Start with Genesis 27:45, where the Bible uses the word bereaved in a real sentence: “until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 27:45
“until your brother’s anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?””
2. Genesis 42:36
“Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.””
3. Genesis 43:14
“May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.””
4. Ruth 1:5
“Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.”
5. Song of Solomon 4:2
“Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.”
6. Song of Solomon 6:6
“Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; no one is bereaved among them.”
7. Isaiah 49:21
“Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’””
8. Jeremiah 15:7
“I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways.”
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Practice Genesis 27:45
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
untilyourbrother’sangerturnawayfromyou,andheforgetswhatyouhavedonetohim.ThenIsend,andgetyoufromthere.WhyIbebereavedofyouinoneday?”