People and promise
Cursed
Start with Genesis 3:14, where the Bible uses the word cursed in a real sentence: “Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:14
“Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.”
2. 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.”
3. Genesis 4:11
“Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
4. Genesis 5:29
“He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.””
5. Genesis 9:25
“He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.””
6. Genesis 27:29
“Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.””
7. Genesis 49:7
“Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.”
8. Leviticus 20:9
““‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodtotheserpent,“Becauseyouhavethis,youarecursedaboveallandaboveeveryanimalofthefield.Youshallgoonyourbellyandyoushalleatdustallthedaysofyourlife.