Everyday words
Discern
Start with Genesis 31:32, where the Bible uses the word discern in a real sentence: “Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:32
“Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.”
2. Genesis 38:25
“When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “By the man, whose these are, I am with child.” She also said, “Please discern whose are these—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.””
3. Ruth 3:14
“She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.””
4. 2 Samuel 14:17
“Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’””
5. 2 Samuel 19:35
“I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?”
6. 1 Kings 3:9
“Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?””
7. 1 Kings 3:11
“God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;”
8. Ezra 3:13
“so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:32
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Anyoneyouyourgodswithshallnotlive.ourrelatives,discernwhatisyourswithme,andtakeit.”ForJacobdidn’tknowRachelhadstolenthem.