Everyday words
Desire
Start with Genesis 3:16, where the Bible uses the word desire in a real sentence: “To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:16
“To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.””
2. Genesis 4:7
“If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.””
3. Exodus 10:11
“Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” They were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.”
4. Exodus 15:9
“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’”
5. Exodus 34:24
“For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.”
6. Deuteronomy 5:21
““You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.””
7. Deuteronomy 12:15
“Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer.”
8. Deuteronomy 12:20
“When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Tothewomanhesaid,“Iwillgreatlymultiplyyourpaininchildbirth.Inpainyouwillbearchildren.willbeforhusband,andhewillruleoveryou.”