Everyday words
Fruitful
Start with Genesis 1:22, where the Bible uses the word fruitful in a real sentence: “God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:22
“God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.””
2. Genesis 1:28
“God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
3. Genesis 8:17
“Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.””
4. Genesis 9:1
“God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.”
5. Genesis 9:7
“Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.””
6. Genesis 17:6
“I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.”
7. Genesis 17:20
“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.”
8. Genesis 26:22
“He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God“Befruitful,andmultiply,andfillthewatersintheseas,andletbirdsmultiplyontheearth.”