Everyday words
Wheat
Start with Genesis 30:14, where the Bible uses the word wheat in a real sentence: “Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 30:14
“Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.””
2. Exodus 9:32
“But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.”
3. Exodus 29:2
“unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.”
4. Exodus 34:22
““You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.”
5. Deuteronomy 8:8
“a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;”
6. Deuteronomy 32:14
“butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.”
7. Judges 6:11
“Yahweh’s angel came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.”
8. Judges 15:1
“But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.”
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Practice Genesis 30:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Reubenwentinthedaysofharvest,andmandrakesinthefield,andbroughtthemtohismother,Leah.ThenRacheltoLeah,“Pleasegivemesomeofyourson’smandrakes.”