Everyday words
Sleep
Start with Genesis 2:21, where the Bible uses the word sleep in a real sentence: “Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:21
“Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.”
2. Genesis 15:12
“When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.”
3. Genesis 28:11
“He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.”
4. Genesis 28:16
“Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.””
5. Genesis 31:40
“This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.”
6. Genesis 47:30
“but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.””
7. Exodus 22:27
“for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.”
8. Deuteronomy 24:12
“If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.”
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Practice Genesis 2:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodcausedthemantointoadeepAsthemanslept,hetookoneofhisribs,andcloseduptheinitsplace.