Everyday words
Little
Start with Genesis 18:4, where the Bible uses the word little in a real sentence: “Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 18:4
“Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.”
2. Genesis 19:20
“See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.””
3. Genesis 24:17
“The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.””
4. Genesis 24:43
“behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,””
5. Genesis 30:30
“For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?””
6. Genesis 34:29
“and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.”
7. Genesis 43:2
“When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.””
8. Genesis 43:8
“Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 18:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Nowletawaterbefetched,washyourfeet,andrestthetree.