Everyday words
Spare
Start with Genesis 18:24, where the Bible uses the word spare in a real sentence: “What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 18:24
“What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?”
2. Genesis 18:26
“Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.””
3. Deuteronomy 13:8
“you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;”
4. 1 Samuel 15:3
“Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’””
5. Nehemiah 13:22
“I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.”
6. Job 2:6
“Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.””
7. Job 6:10
“Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.”
8. Job 16:13
“His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.”
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Practice Genesis 18:24
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whatiftherearefiftywithinthecity?youandnotsparetheplaceforthefiftyrighteouswhoareinit?