Everyday words
Youth
Start with Genesis 8:21, where the Bible uses the word youth in a real sentence: “Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:21
“Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.”
2. Genesis 43:33
“They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.”
3. Genesis 46:34
“that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.””
4. Leviticus 22:13
“But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.”
5. Numbers 30:3
““Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth,”
6. Numbers 30:16
“These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.”
7. Judges 8:20
“He said to Jether his firstborn, “Get up, and kill them!” But the youth didn’t draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was yet a youth.”
8. 1 Samuel 12:2
“Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.”
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Practice Genesis 8:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsmelledthepleasantaroma.Yahwehsaidinhisheart,“Iwillnotagaincursethegroundanymoreforman’ssakebecausetheimaginationofman’sheartisevilfromhisyouth.Ineverstrikeeverylivingthing,asIhave