Everyday words
Whoever
Start with Genesis 4:14, where the Bible uses the word whoever 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 4:15
“Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.”
3. Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.”
4. Genesis 19:12
“The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:”
5. Exodus 9:21
“Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.”
6. Exodus 12:15
““‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.”
7. Exodus 12:19
“There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.”
8. Exodus 19:12
“You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.”
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Practice Genesis 4:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Behold,youhavedrivenmeouttodayfromtheoftheground.Iwillbehiddenfromyourface,andIwillbeaandawandererintheWhoeverfindsmewillkillme.”