Everyday words
Leaves
Start with Genesis 3:7, where the Bible uses the word leaves in a real sentence: “Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:7
“Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.”
2. 1 Kings 6:34
“and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.”
3. Job 39:14
“For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,”
4. Proverbs 13:22
“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.”
5. Proverbs 28:3
“A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.”
6. Jeremiah 36:23
“When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.”
7. Ezekiel 17:9
““Say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.”
8. Ezekiel 41:24
“The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
eyeswereopened,andtheybothknewthatwerenaked.sewedfigleavestogether,andmadecoveringsforthemselves.