Everyday words
Slain
Start with Genesis 4:23, where the Bible uses the word slain in a real sentence: “Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:23
“Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.”
2. Leviticus 14:51
“He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.”
3. Numbers 14:16
“‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’”
4. Numbers 19:16
““Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.”
5. Numbers 19:18
“A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.”
6. Numbers 23:24
“Behold, the people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.””
7. Numbers 25:14
“Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.”
8. Numbers 25:15
“The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.”
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Practice Genesis 4:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Lamechsaidtohiswives,andhearmyvoice.Youwivesoflistentomyspeech,forIhaveslainamanforwoundingme,ayoungmanforbruisingme.