Everyday words
Foreigners
Start with Genesis 15:13, where the Bible uses the word foreigners in a real sentence: “He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:13
“He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.”
2. Genesis 31:15
“Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.”
3. Genesis 35:27
“Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.”
4. Genesis 47:4
“They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.””
5. Leviticus 17:8
““You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,”
6. Leviticus 17:10
““‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.”
7. Leviticus 17:13
““‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.”
8. Leviticus 19:34
“The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.”
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Practice Genesis 15:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
HetoAbram,“Knowforsurethatyouroffspringwillliveasforeignersinalandthatisnottheirs,andwillservethem.Theyafflictfourhundredyears.