Everyday words
Possession
Start with Genesis 17:8, where the Bible uses the word possession in a real sentence: “I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 17:8
“I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.””
2. Genesis 23:4
““I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.””
3. Genesis 23:9
“that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.””
4. Genesis 23:18
“to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.”
5. Genesis 23:20
“The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.”
6. Genesis 36:43
“chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.”
7. Genesis 47:11
“Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.”
8. Genesis 48:4
“and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 17:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillgivetoyou,andtoyouroffspringyou,thewhereyouaretraveling,allthelandofforaneverlastingpossession.IwillbetheirGod.”