Everyday words
Dominion
Start with Genesis 1:26, where the Bible uses the word dominion in a real sentence: “God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:26
“God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””
2. Genesis 1:28
“God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
3. Genesis 37:8
“His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.”
4. Numbers 24:19
“Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.””
5. 2 Samuel 8:3
“David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.”
6. 1 Kings 4:24
“For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.”
7. 1 Kings 9:19
“all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.”
8. 1 Chronicles 4:22
“and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:26
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letusmakemaninourafterourlikeness:andletthemdominionoverthefishofthesea,andthebirdsofthesky,andoverthelivestock,andoveralltheearth,andovereverycreepingthingthatcreepsontheearth.”