Everyday words
Inquire
Start with Genesis 25:22, where the Bible uses the word inquire in a real sentence: “The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 25:22
“The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.”
2. Exodus 18:15
“Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.”
3. Numbers 27:21
“He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.””
4. Deuteronomy 12:30
“be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.””
5. Deuteronomy 13:14
“then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,”
6. Deuteronomy 17:4
“and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,”
7. Deuteronomy 17:9
“You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.”
8. 1 Samuel 9:9
“(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, and let us go to the seer”; for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 25:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thechildrenwithinher.Shesaid,“Ifitisso,whydoIlive?”Shewenttoinquireof