Everyday words
Relatives
Start with Genesis 12:1, where the Bible uses the word relatives in a real sentence: “Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:1
“Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.”
2. Genesis 13:8
“Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.”
3. Genesis 24:4
“But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.””
4. Genesis 24:27
“He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.””
5. Genesis 24:38
“but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’”
6. Genesis 24:40
“He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.”
7. Genesis 24:41
“Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’”
8. Genesis 25:18
“They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 12:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowYahwehsaidtoAbram,“Leaveyourcountry,andandfather’shouse,andgotothelandthatIwillshowyou.