Everyday words
Sacrifice
Start with Genesis 31:54, where the Bible uses the word sacrifice in a real sentence: “Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:54
“Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.”
2. Exodus 5:3
“They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.””
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. Exodus 5:17
“But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’”
5. Exodus 8:8
“Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.””
6. Exodus 8:25
“Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!””
7. Exodus 8:26
“Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won’t they stone us?”
8. Exodus 8:27
“We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.””
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Practice Genesis 31:54
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Jacobasacrificeinthemountain,andcalledhisrelativestoeatbread.atebread,andstayedallinthemountain.