Everyday words
Today
Start with Genesis 4:14, where the Bible uses the word today in a real sentence: “Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:14
“Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.””
2. Genesis 21:26
“Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.””
3. Genesis 24:12
“He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.”
4. Genesis 24:42
“I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—”
5. Genesis 30:32
“I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.”
6. Genesis 31:43
“Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?”
7. Genesis 31:48
“Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed”
8. Genesis 40:7
“He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Behold,youhavedrivenmeouttodayfromtheoftheground.Iwillbehiddenfromyourface,andIwillbeaandawandererintheWhoeverfindsmewillkillme.”