Everyday words
Bosom
Start with Genesis 16:5, where the Bible uses the word bosom in a real sentence: “Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 16:5
“Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.””
2. Numbers 11:12
“Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’”
3. Deuteronomy 13:6
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;”
4. Ruth 4:16
“Naomi took the child, and laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to it.”
5. 2 Samuel 12:3
“but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.”
6. 2 Samuel 12:8
“I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.”
7. 1 Kings 1:2
“Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.””
8. 1 Kings 3:20
“She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 16:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
SaraisaidtoAbram,isyourfault.Igavemyservantintoyourandwhenshesawthatshehadconceived,Iwasdespisedinhereyes.Yahwehjudgebetweenmeandyou.”