Everyday words
Lying
Start with Genesis 29:2, where the Bible uses the word lying in a real sentence: “He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 29:2
“He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.”
2. Genesis 34:7
“The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; a thing ought not to be done.”
3. Genesis 49:14
““Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.”
4. 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.””
5. Numbers 31:17
“Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.”
6. Numbers 31:18
“But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.”
7. Numbers 31:35
“and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.”
8. Numbers 35:20
“If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 29:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Helooked,andbehold,awellintheand,behold,threeflocksofsheeplyingtherebyit.Foroutofthatwellwateredtheflocks.Thestoneonthewell’swaslarge.