Everyday words
Wives
Start with Genesis 4:19, where the Bible uses the word wives in a real sentence: “Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:19
“Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.”
2. Genesis 4:23
“Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.”
3. Genesis 6:2
“God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.”
4. Genesis 6:18
“But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”
5. Genesis 7:7
“Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.”
6. Genesis 7:13
“In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—”
7. Genesis 8:16
““Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.”
8. Genesis 8:18
“Noah went out, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:19
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
LamechtwothenameofthefirstonewasAdah,andthenameoftheonewasZillah.