Everyday words
Seven
Start with Genesis 4:24, where the Bible uses the word seven in a real sentence: “If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:24
“If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.””
2. Genesis 5:7
“Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.”
3. Genesis 5:25
“Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.”
4. Genesis 5:26
“Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.”
5. Genesis 5:31
“All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.”
6. Genesis 7:2
“You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.”
7. Genesis 7:3
“Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.”
8. Genesis 7:4
“In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:24
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IfCainbeseventrulyLamechseventy-seventimes.”