Everyday words
Drinking
Start with Genesis 24:19, where the Bible uses the word drinking in a real sentence: “When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:19
“When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.””
2. Genesis 24:22
“As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,”
3. Ruth 3:3
“Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don’t make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.”
4. 1 Samuel 1:9
“So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.”
5. 1 Samuel 1:15
“Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.”
6. 1 Samuel 30:16
“When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.”
7. 1 Kings 1:25
“For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’”
8. 1 Kings 4:20
“Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.”
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Practice Genesis 24:19
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
shehadfinishedgivinghimadrink,shesaid,“Iwillalsoforyourcamels,untilhavefinisheddrinking.”