Everyday words
Yield
Start with Genesis 1:11, where the Bible uses the word yield in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:11
“God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.”
2. Genesis 3:18
“It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.”
3. Genesis 4:12
“From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.””
4. Leviticus 19:25
“In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.”
5. Leviticus 25:19
“The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.”
6. Leviticus 26:4
“then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.”
7. Leviticus 26:20
“Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.”
8. Deuteronomy 11:17
“and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.”
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Practice Genesis 1:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthegrass,herbsyieldingseeds,andfruittreesbearingaftertheirkind,withtheirseedsinit,ontheearth”;anditwasso.