Everyday words
Sword
Start with Genesis 3:24, where the Bible uses the word sword in a real sentence: “So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:24
“So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.”
2. Genesis 27:40
“By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.””
3. Genesis 31:26
“Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?”
4. Genesis 34:25
“On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.”
5. Genesis 34:26
“They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.”
6. Genesis 48:22
“Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.””
7. Exodus 5:3
“They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.””
8. Exodus 5:21
“and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.””
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Practice Genesis 3:24
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Sohedroveouttheman;andheplacedcherubimattheeastoftheofEden,andaswordturnedeveryway,toguardthewaytothetreeoflife.