Everyday words
According
Start with Genesis 10:20, where the Bible uses the word according in a real sentence: “These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:20
“These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.”
2. Genesis 10:31
“These are the sons of Shem, by their families, according to their languages, lands, and nations.”
3. Genesis 10:32
“These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.”
4. Genesis 21:23
“Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.””
5. Genesis 23:16
“Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.”
6. Genesis 25:13
“These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,”
7. Genesis 25:16
“These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.”
8. Genesis 27:8
“Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.”
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Practice Genesis 10:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThesearethesonsofHam,theiraccordingtotheirlanguages,inlandsandtheirnations.