Everyday words
Respect
Start with Genesis 4:5, where the Bible uses the word respect in a real sentence: “but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:5
“but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.”
2. Exodus 9:21
“Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.”
3. Leviticus 19:3
““‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.”
4. Leviticus 26:9
““‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.”
5. Numbers 5:7
“then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.”
6. Numbers 16:15
“Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.””
7. Deuteronomy 10:17
“For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.”
8. Deuteronomy 28:50
“a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
buthedidn’trespectCainandhisCainwasveryandtheexpressiononhisfell.