Everyday words
Hated
Start with Genesis 27:41, where the Bible uses the word hated in a real sentence: “Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 27:41
“Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.””
2. Genesis 29:31
“Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.”
3. Genesis 29:33
“She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.”
4. Genesis 37:4
“His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.”
5. Genesis 37:5
“Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.”
6. Genesis 37:8
“His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.”
7. Deuteronomy 1:27
“You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.”
8. Deuteronomy 9:28
“lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 27:41
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
EsauhatedJacobbecauseoftheblessingwithwhichhisblessedhim.inhisheart,“Thedaysofmourningformyfatherareathand.ThenIwillkillmybrotherJacob.”