Everyday words
Labor
Start with Genesis 3:17, where the Bible uses the word labor in a real sentence: “To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:17
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.”
2. Genesis 31:42
“Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.””
3. Genesis 35:16
“They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.”
4. Genesis 35:17
“When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.””
5. Genesis 49:15
“He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.”
6. Exodus 5:9
“Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it; and don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.””
7. Exodus 20:9
“You shall labor six days, and do all your work,”
8. Deuteronomy 5:13
“You shall labor six days, and do all your work;”
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Practice Genesis 3:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ToAdamhesaid,“Becauseyouhavetoyourwife’svoice,andatefromthetree,aboutwhichIcommandedyou,saying,‘Younoteatofit,’thegroundisforyoursake.Youwilleatfromitwithmuchlaborallthedaysofyourlife.