Everyday words
Strikes
Start with Genesis 32:8, where the Bible uses the word strikes in a real sentence: “and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 32:8
“and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.””
2. Exodus 21:12
““One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,”
3. Exodus 21:18
““If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;”
4. Exodus 21:20
““If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.”
5. Exodus 21:26
““If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.”
6. Exodus 21:27
“If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.”
7. Leviticus 24:17
““‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.”
8. Leviticus 24:18
“He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 32:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andhesaid,“IfEsaucomestotheonecompany,andit,thenthecompanyisleftescape.”