Everyday words
Deliver
Start with Genesis 32:11, where the Bible uses the word deliver in a real sentence: “Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 32:11
“Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.”
2. Genesis 37:22
“Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.”
3. Genesis 42:34
“Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’””
4. Exodus 5:18
“Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!””
5. Exodus 23:31
“I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.”
6. Leviticus 26:26
“When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.”
7. Numbers 21:2
“Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.””
8. Deuteronomy 1:27
“You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 32:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
mefromthehandofmybrother,fromthehandofEsau:forIfearhim,hecomeandstrikeme,andthemotherswiththechildren.