Everyday words
Right
Start with Genesis 13:9, where the Bible uses the word right in a real sentence: “Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:9
“Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.””
2. Genesis 18:25
“Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?””
3. Genesis 24:48
“I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.”
4. Genesis 24:49
“Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.””
5. Genesis 48:13
“Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.”
6. Genesis 48:14
“Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.”
7. Genesis 48:17
“When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.”
8. Genesis 48:18
“Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 13:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Isn’tthewholelandbeforeyou?separateyourselffromme.Ifyougotothelefthand,thenIgototheright.Orifyougotothehand,thenIwillgototheleft.”