Everyday words
Wickedness
Start with Genesis 6:5, where the Bible uses the word wickedness in a real sentence: “Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:5
“Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.”
2. Genesis 39:9
“No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?””
3. Leviticus 18:17
““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.”
4. Leviticus 19:29
““‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.”
5. Leviticus 20:14
““‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.”
6. Deuteronomy 9:4
“Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.”
7. Deuteronomy 9:27
“Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,”
8. Deuteronomy 13:11
“All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
sawthatthewickednessofmanwasintheearth,andthateveryimaginationoftheofman’sheartwascontinuallyonlyevil.