Everyday words
Since
Start with Genesis 15:2, where the Bible uses the word since in a real sentence: “Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:2
“Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?””
2. Genesis 18:18
“since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?”
3. Genesis 22:12
“He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.””
4. Genesis 24:56
“He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.””
5. Genesis 26:27
“Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?””
6. Genesis 44:28
“and the one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces”; and I haven’t seen him since.”
7. Genesis 44:30
“Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;”
8. Genesis 46:30
“Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 15:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Abramsaid,“LordYahweh,whatyoume,sinceIgochildless,andhewhowillinheritmyisEliezerofDamascus?”