Everyday words
Young
Start with Genesis 4:23, where the Bible uses the word young in a real sentence: “Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. 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.”
2. Genesis 14:24
“I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.””
3. Genesis 15:9
“He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.””
4. Genesis 19:4
“But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.”
5. Genesis 22:3
“Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.”
6. Genesis 22:5
“Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.””
7. Genesis 22:19
“So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.”
8. Genesis 24:16
“The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Lamechsaidtohiswives,andhearmyvoice.Youwivesoflistentomyspeech,forIhaveslainamanforwoundingme,ayoungmanforbruisingme.