Everyday words
Blessing
Start with Genesis 12:2, where the Bible uses the word blessing in a real sentence: “I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:2
“I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.”
2. Genesis 27:12
“What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.””
3. Genesis 27:30
“As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.”
4. Genesis 27:35
“He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.””
5. Genesis 27:36
“He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?””
6. Genesis 27:38
“Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.”
7. Genesis 27:41
“Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.””
8. Genesis 28:4
“and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 12:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillmakeofyouagreatnation.Iblessyouandmakeyournamegreat.Youbea