Everyday words
Stranger
Start with Genesis 23:4, where the Bible uses the word stranger in a real sentence: ““I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:4
““I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.””
2. Genesis 42:7
“Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.””
3. Exodus 12:48
“When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.”
4. Exodus 12:49
“One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.””
5. Exodus 20:10
“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;”
6. Exodus 29:33
“They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.”
7. Exodus 30:33
“Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’””
8. Leviticus 16:29
““It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 23:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Iamaandaforeignerwithyou.Givemeapossessionofaburying-placewithyou,thatImayburymyoutofmysight.”