Everyday words
Beautiful
Start with Genesis 6:2, where the Bible uses the word beautiful in a real sentence: “God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:2
“God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.”
2. Genesis 12:11
“When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.”
3. Genesis 12:14
“When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.”
4. Genesis 24:16
“The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.”
5. Genesis 26:7
“The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.””
6. Genesis 29:17
“Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.”
7. Genesis 49:21
““Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.”
8. Deuteronomy 21:11
“and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God’ssonssawmen’sdaughterswerebeautiful,andtookanythatwantedforthemselvesaswives.