Everyday words
Period
Start with Genesis 31:35, where the Bible uses the word period in a real sentence: “She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:35
“She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.”
2. Leviticus 12:2
““Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.”
3. Leviticus 12:5
“But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.”
4. Leviticus 15:25
““‘If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.”
5. Leviticus 15:26
“Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.”
6. Leviticus 15:33
“and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean.”
7. Leviticus 20:18
““‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.”
8. Acts 1:3
“To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.”
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Practice Genesis 31:35
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Shesaidtoherfather,“Don’tletmybeangrythatIcan’triseupyou;forI’mhavingmyperiod.”Hesearched,butdidn’ttheteraphim.