Everyday words
Served
Start with Genesis 14:4, where the Bible uses the word served in a real sentence: “They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:4
“They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.”
2. Genesis 29:20
“Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.”
3. Genesis 29:30
“He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.”
4. Genesis 30:26
“Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.””
5. Genesis 30:29
“He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.”
6. Genesis 31:6
“You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.”
7. Genesis 31:41
“These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.”
8. Genesis 43:32
“They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
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Practice Genesis 14:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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