Everyday words
Yours
Start with Genesis 14:23, where the Bible uses the word yours in a real sentence: “that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:23
“that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’”
2. Genesis 20:7
“Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.””
3. Genesis 31:32
“Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.”
4. Genesis 33:9
“Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.””
5. Genesis 45:20
“Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.””
6. Genesis 48:6
“Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.”
7. Exodus 11:8
“All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you”; and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.”
8. Leviticus 10:15
“The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever; as Yahweh has commanded.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 14:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillnottakeathreadnorastrapnoranythingthatisyours,lestyoushouldsay,‘Ihavemaderich.’