Everyday words
Sworn
Start with Genesis 22:16, where the Bible uses the word sworn in a real sentence: “and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 22:16
“and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,”
2. Exodus 17:16
“He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’””
3. Leviticus 6:5
“or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.”
4. Deuteronomy 13:17
“Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;”
5. Deuteronomy 19:8
“If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;”
6. Deuteronomy 28:9
“Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.”
7. Deuteronomy 31:7
“Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.”
8. Joshua 9:18
“The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 22:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andsaid,“Ihaveswornbymyself,becauseyouhavedonethisthing,andhavenotwithheldyourson,onlyson,