Everyday words
Serpent
Start with Genesis 3:1, where the Bible uses the word serpent in a real sentence: “Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:1
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’””
2. Genesis 3:2
“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,”
3. Genesis 3:4
“The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,”
4. Genesis 3:13
“Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.””
5. Genesis 3:14
“Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.”
6. Genesis 49:17
“Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.”
7. Exodus 7:9
““When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.’””
8. Exodus 7:10
“Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.”
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Practice Genesis 3:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowtheserpentwasmoresubtlethananyofthefieldwhichGodhadmade.Hesaidtothe“HasGodreallysaid,‘Youshallnoteatofanytreeofthegarden?’”