Everyday words
Mouth
Start with Genesis 4:11, where the Bible uses the word mouth in a real sentence: “Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:11
“Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
2. Genesis 8:11
“The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.”
3. 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.”
4. Genesis 29:3
“There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.”
5. Genesis 29:8
“They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.””
6. Genesis 29:10
“When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.”
7. Genesis 42:27
“As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.”
8. Genesis 43:12
“and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.”
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Practice Genesis 4:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Nowyouarebecauseofthewhichhasopeneditsmouthtoyourbrother’sbloodfromyourhand.