People and promise
Curse
Start with Genesis 8:21, where the Bible uses the word curse in a real sentence: “Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:21
“Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.”
2. Genesis 12:3
“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treates you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.””
3. Genesis 27:12
“What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.””
4. Genesis 27:13
“His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.””
5. Exodus 22:28
““You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.”
6. Leviticus 19:14
““‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.”
7. Numbers 5:19
“The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.”
8. Numbers 5:21
“then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 8:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsmelledthepleasantaroma.Yahwehsaidinhisheart,“Iwillnotagaincursethegroundanymoreforman’ssakebecausetheimaginationofman’sheartisevilfromhisyouth.Ineverstrikeeverylivingthing,asIhave