Everyday words
Beginning
Start with Genesis 1:1, where the Bible uses the word beginning in a real sentence: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
2. Genesis 10:10
“The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.”
3. Genesis 13:3
“He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,”
4. Genesis 41:21
“and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.”
5. Genesis 44:12
“He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.”
6. Genesis 49:3
““Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.”
7. Exodus 12:2
““This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.”
8. Deuteronomy 11:12
“a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.”
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Practice Genesis 1:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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