Everyday words
Shoulders
Start with Genesis 9:23, where the Bible uses the word shoulders in a real sentence: “Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 9:23
“Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.”
2. Exodus 12:34
“The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.”
3. 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.”
4. Numbers 7:9
“But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.”
5. Deuteronomy 33:12
“About Benjamin he said, “The beloved of Yahweh will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all day long. He dwells between his shoulders.””
6. Judges 16:3
“Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.”
7. 1 Samuel 9:2
“He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.”
8. 1 Samuel 10:23
“They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.”
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Practice Genesis 9:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ShemandJaphethagarment,andlaiditonboththeirwentinbackwards,andcoveredthenakednessoftheirfather.Theirfacesbackwards,andtheydidn’tseetheirfather’snakedness.