Everyday words
Stolen
Start with Genesis 30:33, where the Bible uses the word stolen in a real sentence: “So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 30:33
“So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be considered stolen.””
2. Genesis 31:30
“Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?””
3. Genesis 31:32
“Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.”
4. Genesis 31:39
“That which was torn of animals, I didn’t bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.”
5. Genesis 40:15
“For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.””
6. Exodus 22:4
“If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.”
7. Exodus 22:7
““If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.”
8. Exodus 22:12
“But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 30:33
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Somyrighteousnessanswerformehereafter,whenyoucomeconcerningmyhirethatisbeforeyou.Everyonethatisnotspeckledandspottedamongthegoats,andblackamongthemightbewithme,willbeconsideredstolen.”