Everyday words
Flock
Start with Genesis 4:4, where the Bible uses the word flock 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 21:28
“Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.”
3. Genesis 27:9
“Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.”
4. Genesis 29:10
“When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.”
5. Genesis 30:31
“He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.”
6. Genesis 30:32
“I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.”
7. Genesis 30:40
“Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.”
8. Genesis 30:41
“Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;”
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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,