Everyday words
Offspring
Start with Genesis 3:15, where the Bible uses the word offspring in a real sentence: “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:15
“I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.””
2. Genesis 9:9
““As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,”
3. Genesis 12:7
“Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.”
4. Genesis 13:15
“for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.”
5. Genesis 13:16
“I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.”
6. Genesis 15:5
“Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.””
7. Genesis 15:13
“He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.”
8. Genesis 15:18
“In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillputhostilitybetweenyouandthewoman,andoffspringandheroffspring.Hewillyourhead,andyouwillbruisehisheel.”