Everyday words
Slept
Start with Genesis 2:21, where the Bible uses the word slept 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 41:5
“He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.”
3. Joshua 2:1
“Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.”
4. 1 Samuel 2:22
“Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.”
5. 2 Samuel 11:9
“But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.”
6. 1 Kings 2:10
“David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.”
7. 1 Kings 3:20
“She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.”
8. 1 Kings 11:21
“When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.””
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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.