Everyday words
Green
Start with Genesis 1:30, where the Bible uses the word green in a real sentence: “To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:30
“To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.”
2. Genesis 9:3
“Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.”
3. Deuteronomy 12:2
“You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.”
4. Judges 16:7
“Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.””
5. Judges 16:8
“Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.”
6. 1 Kings 14:23
“For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.”
7. 2 Kings 16:4
“He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.”
8. 2 Kings 17:10
“and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:30
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Toeveryanimaloftheearth,andtoeverybirdofthesky,andtoeverythingthatontheearth,inwhichthereislife,Ieverygreenherbforfood;”anditwasso.