Everyday words
Keeper
Start with Genesis 4:2, where the Bible uses the word keeper in a real sentence: “Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:2
“Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”
2. Genesis 4:9
“Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?””
3. Genesis 39:21
“But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.”
4. Genesis 39:22
“The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.”
5. Genesis 39:23
“The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.”
6. 1 Samuel 17:20
“David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.”
7. 1 Samuel 17:22
“David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.”
8. 2 Kings 22:14
“So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.”
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Practice Genesis 4:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
shebirth,toCain’sbrotherAbel.Abelwasaofsheep,butCainwasatilleroftheground.