Everyday words
Require
Start with Genesis 9:5, where the Bible uses the word require in a real sentence: “I will surely require your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 9:5
“I will surely require your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.”
2. Genesis 43:9
“I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,”
3. Exodus 5:8
“The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’”
4. Deuteronomy 10:12
“Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,”
5. Deuteronomy 15:2
“This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.”
6. Deuteronomy 15:3
“Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.”
7. Deuteronomy 18:19
“It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
8. Deuteronomy 23:21
“When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 9:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillrequireyourlife’sblood.AtthehandofeveryanimalIwillrequireit.Atthehandofman,evenattheofeveryman’sbrother,Iwillthelifeofman.