Everyday words
Speech
Start with Genesis 4:23, where the Bible uses the word speech 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. Genesis 11:1
“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
3. Genesis 11:7
“Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.””
4. Exodus 4:10
“Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.””
5. Deuteronomy 32:2
“My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.”
6. 1 Samuel 16:18
“Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.””
7. 2 Samuel 19:11
“King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.”
8. Nehemiah 13:24
“and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.”
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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.