Everyday words
Herbs
Start with Genesis 1:11, where the Bible uses the word herbs in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:11
“God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.”
2. Genesis 1:12
“The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.”
3. Exodus 12:8
“They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.”
4. Numbers 9:11
“In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.”
5. Deuteronomy 11:10
“For the land, where you go in to possess, isn’t like the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;”
6. 1 Kings 21:2
“Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.””
7. 2 Kings 4:39
“One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.”
8. Job 30:4
“They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.”
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Practice Genesis 1:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthegrass,herbsyieldingseeds,andfruittreesbearingaftertheirkind,withtheirseedsinit,ontheearth”;anditwasso.