Everyday words
Garden
Start with Genesis 2:8, where the Bible uses the word garden in a real sentence: “Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:8
“Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
2. Genesis 2:9
“Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
3. Genesis 2:10
“A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.”
4. Genesis 2:15
“Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.”
5. Genesis 2:16
“Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;”
6. Genesis 3:1
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’””
7. Genesis 3:2
“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,”
8. 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.’””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 2:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodplantedagardeninEden,andheputthemanhehadformed.