Everyday words
Bones
Start with Genesis 2:23, where the Bible uses the word bones in a real sentence: “The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:23
“The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.””
2. Genesis 50:25
“Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.””
3. Exodus 12:46
“It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.”
4. Exodus 13:19
“Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.””
5. Numbers 24:8
“God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.”
6. 1 Samuel 31:13
“They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.”
7. 2 Samuel 21:12
“So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;”
8. 2 Samuel 21:13
“and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 2:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Themansaid,isnowboneofmyandfleshofmyflesh.Shewillbecalled‘woman,’shewastakenoutofMan.”