Everyday words
Trees
Start with Genesis 1:11, where the Bible uses the word trees in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:11
“God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.”
2. Genesis 1:12
“The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.”
3. Genesis 3:2
“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,”
4. 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.”
5. Genesis 23:17
“So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded”
6. Exodus 15:27
“They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.”
7. Leviticus 19:23
““‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years they shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.”
8. Leviticus 23:40
“You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.”
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Practice Genesis 1:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthegrass,herbsyieldingseeds,andfruittreesbearingaftertheirkind,withtheirseedsinit,ontheearth”;anditwasso.