Everyday words
Virgin
Start with Genesis 19:8, where the Bible uses the word virgin in a real sentence: “See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:8
“See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.””
2. Genesis 24:16
“The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.”
3. Exodus 22:16
““If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.”
4. Leviticus 21:3
“and for his virgin sister who is near to him, who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.”
5. Leviticus 21:14
“A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.”
6. Deuteronomy 22:19
“They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.”
7. Deuteronomy 22:23
“If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;”
8. Deuteronomy 22:28
“If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 19:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Seenow,Itwovirgindaughters.Pleaseletmebringthemouttoyou,andyoumaydotowhatseemsgoodtoyou.Onlydon’tdoanythingtomen,becausetheyhavecomeundertheshadowofmyroof.”