Everyday words
Offering
Start with Genesis 4:3, where the Bible uses the word offering in a real sentence: “As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:3
“As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.”
2. Genesis 4:4
“Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,”
3. Genesis 4:5
“but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.”
4. Genesis 22:2
“He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.””
5. Genesis 22:3
“Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.”
6. Genesis 22:6
“Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.”
7. Genesis 22:7
“Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?””
8. Genesis 22:8
“Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
AstimeCainanofferingtoYahwehfromtheoftheground.