Everyday words
Mourning
Start with Genesis 27:41, where the Bible uses the word mourning in a real sentence: “Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 27:41
“Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.””
2. Genesis 37:35
“All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.”
3. Genesis 50:11
“When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.”
4. Deuteronomy 26:14
“I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.”
5. Deuteronomy 34:8
“The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.”
6. 2 Samuel 11:27
“When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.”
7. 2 Samuel 14:2
“Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.”
8. 2 Samuel 19:2
“The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people; for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 27:41
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
EsauhatedJacobbecauseoftheblessingwithwhichhisblessedhim.inhisheart,“Thedaysofmourningformyfatherareathand.ThenIwillkillmybrotherJacob.”