Everyday words
Summer
Start with Genesis 8:22, where the Bible uses the word summer in a real sentence: “While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:22
“While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.””
2. 2 Samuel 16:1
“When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.”
3. 2 Samuel 16:2
“The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.””
4. Psalms 32:4
“For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.”
5. Psalms 74:17
“You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.”
6. Proverbs 6:8
“provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.”
7. Proverbs 10:5
“He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.”
8. Proverbs 26:1
“Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.”
1 of 8
Say it
Practice Genesis 8:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
theearthseedtimeandharvest,andcoldandheat,andandwinter,anddayandnightwillnotcease.”