Everyday words
Themselves
Start with Genesis 3:7, where the Bible uses the word themselves in a real sentence: “Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:7
“Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.”
2. Genesis 3:8
“They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.”
3. Genesis 6:2
“God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.”
4. Genesis 13:11
“So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.”
5. Genesis 19:11
“They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”
6. Genesis 21:28
“Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.”
7. Genesis 21:29
“Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?””
8. Genesis 33:6
“Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
eyeswereopened,andtheybothknewthatwerenaked.sewedfigleavestogether,andmadecoveringsforthemselves.