People and promise
Cease
Start with Genesis 8:22, where the Bible uses the word cease in a real sentence: “While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:22
“While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.””
2. Exodus 9:29
“Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.”
3. Numbers 8:25
“and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,”
4. Numbers 17:5
“It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.””
5. Deuteronomy 15:11
“For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.”
6. Deuteronomy 32:26
“I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;”
7. Joshua 22:25
“For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.”
8. Judges 2:19
“But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 8:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
theearthseedtimeandharvest,andcoldandheat,andandwinter,anddayandnightwillnotcease.”