Everyday words
Secretly
Start with Genesis 31:27, where the Bible uses the word secretly in a real sentence: “Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:27
“Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;”
2. Deuteronomy 13:6
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;”
3. Deuteronomy 27:24
“‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
4. Deuteronomy 28:57
“toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.”
5. Joshua 2:1
“Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.”
6. 1 Samuel 18:22
“Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’””
7. 1 Samuel 24:4
“David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.”
8. 2 Samuel 12:12
“For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:27
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whydidyoufleesecretly,andme,anddidn’ttellme,thatIhavesentyouawaywithmirthandwithwithtambourineandwithharp;