Everyday words
Thorns
Start with Genesis 3:18, where the Bible uses the word thorns in a real sentence: “It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:18
“It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.”
2. Exodus 22:6
““If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.”
3. Numbers 33:55
““But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.”
4. Judges 8:7
“Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.””
5. Judges 8:16
“He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.”
6. 2 Samuel 23:6
“But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand,”
7. Job 5:5
“whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.”
8. Psalms 58:9
“Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.”
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Practice Genesis 3:18
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Itwillyieldandthistlestoyou;andyouwilleattheofthe