Everyday words
Strike
Start with Genesis 4:15, where the Bible uses the word strike in a real sentence: “Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:15
“Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.”
2. Genesis 8:21
“Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.”
3. Genesis 32:11
“Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.”
4. Exodus 2:13
“He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?””
5. Exodus 3:20
“I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.”
6. Exodus 7:17
“Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.”
7. Exodus 8:16
“Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’””
8. Exodus 12:12
“For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.”
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Practice Genesis 4:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
tohim,“ThereforewhoeverslaysCain,vengeancewillbetakenonhimsevenfold.”YahwehappointedasignforCain,sothatfindinghimwouldnotstrikehim.