Everyday words
Plant
Start with Genesis 2:5, where the Bible uses the word plant in a real sentence: “No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:5
“No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,”
2. Exodus 15:17
“You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.”
3. Deuteronomy 6:11
“and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;”
4. Deuteronomy 16:21
“You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.”
5. Deuteronomy 28:30
“You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.”
6. Deuteronomy 28:39
“You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine, nor harvest, because worms will eat them.”
7. Joshua 24:13
“I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’”
8. 2 Samuel 7:10
“I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,”
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Practice Genesis 2:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Noplantofthefieldwasyetintheearth,andnoofthefieldhadyetup;forYahwehGodhadnotittorainontheearth.Therewasnotamantotilltheground,