Everyday words
Bitter
Start with Genesis 27:34, where the Bible uses the word bitter in a real sentence: “When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 27:34
“When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.””
2. Exodus 1:14
“and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.”
3. Exodus 12:8
“They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.”
4. Exodus 15:23
“When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.”
5. Numbers 5:24
“He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.”
6. Numbers 9:11
“In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.”
7. Deuteronomy 29:18
“lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;”
8. Deuteronomy 32:24
“They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.”
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Practice Genesis 27:34
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
WhenEsauthewordsofhisfather,hewithanexceedinggreatandbittercry,andsaidtohis“Blessme,evenmealso,myfather.”