Everyday words
Times
Start with Genesis 4:24, where the Bible uses the word times in a real sentence: “If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:24
“If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.””
2. Genesis 26:12
“Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.”
3. Genesis 27:36
“He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?””
4. Genesis 31:7
“Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.”
5. Genesis 31:41
“These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.”
6. Genesis 33:3
“He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.”
7. Genesis 43:34
“He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.”
8. Exodus 18:22
“Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:24
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IfCainbeseventrulyLamechseventy-seventimes.”