Everyday words
Guilt
Start with Genesis 26:10, where the Bible uses the word guilt in a real sentence: “Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 26:10
“Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!””
2. Exodus 22:2
“If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.”
3. Exodus 22:3
“If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.”
4. Leviticus 4:3
“if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.”
5. Leviticus 22:16
“and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’””
6. Numbers 5:7
“then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.”
7. Numbers 5:8
“But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest’s; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.”
8. Deuteronomy 19:10
“This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.”
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Practice Genesis 26:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Abimelechsaid,“Whatisthisyouhavedonetous?Oneofthepeoplehavelainwithyourwife,andyouwouldhavebroughtonus!”