Everyday words
Flesh
Start with Genesis 2:21, where the Bible uses the word flesh in a real sentence: “Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:21
“Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.”
2. Genesis 2:23
“The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.””
3. Genesis 2:24
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
4. Genesis 6:3
“Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.””
5. Genesis 6:12
“God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.”
6. Genesis 6:13
“God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.”
7. Genesis 6:17
“I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.”
8. Genesis 6:19
“Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.”
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Practice Genesis 2:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodcausedthemantointoadeepAsthemanslept,hetookoneofhisribs,andcloseduptheinitsplace.