Everyday words
Witness
Start with Genesis 21:30, where the Bible uses the word witness in a real sentence: “He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 21:30
“He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.””
2. Genesis 31:44
“Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.””
3. Genesis 31:48
“Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed”
4. Genesis 31:50
“If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.””
5. Genesis 31:52
“May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.”
6. Exodus 23:1
““You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.”
7. Leviticus 5:1
““‘If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.”
8. Numbers 5:13
“and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 21:30
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hesaid,“Youshalltakethesesevenewelambsmythatitmaybeawitnesstome,thatIhavedugwell.”