Everyday words
Reproach
Start with Genesis 30:23, where the Bible uses the word reproach in a real sentence: “She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 30:23
“She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.””
2. Genesis 34:14
“and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.”
3. Joshua 5:9
“Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.”
4. Ruth 2:15
“When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.”
5. 1 Samuel 17:26
“David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?””
6. Nehemiah 1:3
“They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.””
7. Nehemiah 4:4
““Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity;”
8. Nehemiah 5:9
“Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?”
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Practice Genesis 30:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Sheconceived,ason,and“Godhastakenawaymy