Everyday words
Willing
Start with Genesis 24:5, where the Bible uses the word willing in a real sentence: “The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:5
“The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?””
2. Genesis 24:8
“If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.””
3. Exodus 25:2
““Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.”
4. Exodus 35:5
“‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, brass,”
5. Exodus 35:21
“They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering, for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.”
6. Exodus 35:22
“They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.”
7. Exodus 35:29
“The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.”
8. 1 Samuel 15:9
“But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.”
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Practice Genesis 24:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thesaidtohim,“Whatifthewomanisn’twillingtofollowmetothisland?Ibringyoursonagaintothelandyoufrom?”