Everyday words
Begin
Start with Genesis 11:6, where the Bible uses the word begin in a real sentence: “Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:6
“Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”
2. Deuteronomy 2:24
““Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.”
3. Deuteronomy 2:25
“Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.””
4. Deuteronomy 2:31
“Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.””
5. Deuteronomy 16:9
“You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.”
6. Joshua 3:7
“Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.”
7. Judges 10:18
“The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.””
8. Judges 13:5
“for, behold, you shall conceive, and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 11:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsaid,theyareonepeople,andhaveallonelanguage,andthisiswhattheybegintodo.Nownothingwillbewithheldfromthem,whichintendtodo.