Everyday words
Receive
Start with Genesis 4:11, where the Bible uses the word receive in a real sentence: “Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:11
“Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
2. Genesis 33:10
“Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.”
3. Genesis 38:20
“Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.”
4. Numbers 18:28
“Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh’s wave offering to Aaron the priest.”
5. Deuteronomy 9:9
“When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.”
6. 1 Samuel 10:4
“They will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hand.”
7. 2 Kings 5:16
“But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.”
8. 2 Kings 5:26
“He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?”
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Practice Genesis 4:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Nowyouarebecauseofthewhichhasopeneditsmouthtoyourbrother’sbloodfromyourhand.