Everyday words
Shoulder
Start with Genesis 21:14, where the Bible uses the word shoulder in a real sentence: “Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 21:14
“Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
2. Genesis 24:15
“Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.”
3. Genesis 24:45
“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’”
4. Genesis 24:46
“She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.”
5. Genesis 49:15
“He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.”
6. Exodus 28:7
“It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.”
7. Exodus 28:12
“You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.”
8. Exodus 28:25
“The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.”
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Practice Genesis 21:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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