Everyday words
Instead
Start with Genesis 4:25, where the Bible uses the word instead in a real sentence: “Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:25
“Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.””
2. Genesis 22:13
“Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.”
3. Genesis 44:33
“Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.”
4. Numbers 3:12
““Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:”
5. Numbers 3:41
“You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.””
6. Numbers 3:45
““Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”
7. Numbers 8:16
“For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.”
8. Numbers 8:18
“I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:25
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Adamknewhiswifeagain.Shegavebirthtoason,andnamedhimSeth,“forGodhasgivenmeanotherchildofAbel,forCainhim.”