Everyday words
Around
Start with Genesis 31:34, where the Bible uses the word around in a real sentence: “Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:34
“Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.”
2. Genesis 31:37
“Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.”
3. Genesis 35:5
“They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.”
4. Genesis 37:7
“for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.””
5. Genesis 41:48
“He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.”
6. Exodus 7:24
“All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.”
7. Exodus 13:18
“but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.”
8. Exodus 16:13
“In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.”
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Practice Genesis 31:34
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowRachelhadtakentheteraphim,putinthecamel’ssaddle,andsatonthem.Labanaroundallthetent,butdidn’tfind