Everyday words
Loose
Start with Genesis 27:40, where the Bible uses the word loose in a real sentence: “By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 27:40
“By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.””
2. Exodus 22:5
““If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.”
3. Exodus 32:25
“When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),”
4. Exodus 39:21
“They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.”
5. Leviticus 13:45
““The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’”
6. Leviticus 21:10
““‘He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, or tear his clothes.”
7. Deuteronomy 25:9
“then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.””
8. Job 6:9
“even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 27:40
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Byyourswordwillyoulive,andyouwillservebrother.Ithappen,whenyouwillbreakloose,thatyoushallshakehisyokefromoffneck.”