Everyday words
Blood
Start with Genesis 4:10, where the Bible uses the word blood in a real sentence: “Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:10
“Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.”
2. Genesis 4:11
“Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
3. Genesis 9:4
“But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.”
4. Genesis 9:5
“I will surely require your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.”
5. Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.”
6. Genesis 37:22
“Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.”
7. Genesis 37:26
“Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?”
8. Genesis 37:31
“They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsaid,“WhatyouThevoiceofyourbrother’sbloodcriestometheground.