People and promise
Commanded
Start with Genesis 2:16, where the Bible uses the word commanded in a real sentence: “Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:16
“Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;”
2. Genesis 3:11
“God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?””
3. Genesis 3:17
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.”
4. Genesis 6:22
“Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.”
5. Genesis 7:5
“Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.”
6. Genesis 7:9
“went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.”
7. Genesis 7:16
“Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.”
8. Genesis 12:20
“Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 2:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godcommandedtheman,saying,“Youmayeatofeverytreeofthe