Everyday words
Statutes
Start with Genesis 26:5, where the Bible uses the word statutes in a real sentence: “because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 26:5
“because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.””
2. Exodus 18:16
“When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.””
3. Exodus 18:20
“You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.”
4. Leviticus 10:11
“You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.””
5. Leviticus 18:3
“You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You shall not follow their statutes.”
6. Leviticus 18:4
“You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.”
7. Leviticus 18:5
“You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.”
8. Leviticus 18:26
“You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 26:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
becauseAbrahamobeyedmyvoice,andmyrequirements,mymyandmylaws.”