Everyday words
Tender
Start with Genesis 18:7, where the Bible uses the word tender in a real sentence: “Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 18:7
“Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.”
2. Genesis 33:13
“Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.”
3. Deuteronomy 28:54
“The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;”
4. Deuteronomy 28:56
“The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,”
5. Deuteronomy 32:2
“My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.”
6. 2 Samuel 23:4
“shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’”
7. 1 Chronicles 29:1
“David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.”
8. 2 Chronicles 13:7
“Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.”
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Practice Genesis 18:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Abrahamrantotheherd,andfetchedatenderandgoodcalf,andgaveittotheHetoit.