Everyday words
Sheep
Start with Genesis 4:2, where the Bible uses the word sheep in a real sentence: “Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:2
“Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”
2. Genesis 12:16
“He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.”
3. Genesis 20:14
“Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.”
4. Genesis 21:27
“Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.”
5. Genesis 29:2
“He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.”
6. Genesis 29:3
“There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.”
7. Genesis 29:6
“He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.””
8. Genesis 29:7
“He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
shebirth,toCain’sbrotherAbel.Abelwasaofsheep,butCainwasatilleroftheground.