Everyday words
Egyptian
Start with Genesis 16:1, where the Bible uses the word egyptian in a real sentence: “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 16:1
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.”
2. Genesis 16:3
“Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.”
3. Genesis 21:9
“Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.”
4. Genesis 25:12
“Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.”
5. Genesis 39:1
“Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.”
6. Genesis 39:2
“Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.”
7. Genesis 39:5
“From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.”
8. Exodus 1:19
“The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 16:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowSarai,Abram’swife,borehimnochildren.ShehadaanEgyptian,namewas