Everyday words
Firstborn
Start with Genesis 4:4, where the Bible uses the word firstborn in a real sentence: “Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:4
“Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,”
2. Genesis 10:15
“Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,”
3. Genesis 19:31
“The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.”
4. Genesis 19:33
“They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.”
5. Genesis 19:34
“It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.””
6. Genesis 19:37
“The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.”
7. Genesis 22:21
“Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,”
8. Genesis 25:13
“These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Abelofthefirstbornofhisflockandofitsfat.YahwehrespectedAbelandhisoffering,