Everyday words
Likeness
Start with Genesis 1:26, where the Bible uses the word likeness in a real sentence: “God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:26
“God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””
2. Genesis 5:1
“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.”
3. Genesis 5:3
“Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.”
4. Deuteronomy 4:16
“lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,”
5. Deuteronomy 4:17
“the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,”
6. Deuteronomy 4:18
“the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;”
7. Deuteronomy 5:8
““You shall not make a carved image for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
8. 2 Chronicles 4:3
“Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:26
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letusmakemaninourafterourlikeness:andletthemdominionoverthefishofthesea,andthebirdsofthesky,andoverthelivestock,andoveralltheearth,andovereverycreepingthingthatcreepsontheearth.”