Everyday words
Fruit
Start with Genesis 1:11, where the Bible uses the word fruit in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:11
“God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.”
2. Genesis 1:12
“The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.”
3. Genesis 1:29
“God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”
4. Genesis 3:2
“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,”
5. Genesis 3:3
“but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’””
6. Genesis 3:6
“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.”
7. Genesis 3:12
“The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.””
8. Genesis 4:3
“As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthegrass,herbsyieldingseeds,andfruittreesbearingaftertheirkind,withtheirseedsinit,ontheearth”;anditwasso.