Everyday words
Truly
Start with Genesis 4:24, where the Bible uses the word truly 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 24:49
“Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.””
3. Genesis 47:29
“The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,”
4. Joshua 2:14
“The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.””
5. Joshua 2:24
“They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered all the land into our hands. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.””
6. Joshua 7:20
“Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.”
7. Judges 9:16
““Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands”
8. Judges 9:19
“if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in 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.”