Everyday words
Altar
Start with Genesis 8:20, where the Bible uses the word altar in a real sentence: “Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:20
“Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”
2. Genesis 12:7
“Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.”
3. Genesis 12:8
“He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.”
4. Genesis 13:4
“to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.”
5. Genesis 13:18
“Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.”
6. Genesis 22:9
“They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.”
7. Genesis 26:25
“He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.”
8. Genesis 33:20
“He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 8:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
builtanaltartoYahweh,andtookofeverycleananimal,andofbird,andofferedburntofferingsonthealtar.