Everyday words
Birds
Start with Genesis 1:20, where the Bible uses the word birds in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:20
“God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.””
2. Genesis 1:22
“God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.””
3. Genesis 1:26
“God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””
4. Genesis 1:28
“God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
5. Genesis 2:20
“The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.”
6. Genesis 6:7
“Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.””
7. Genesis 6:20
“Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.”
8. Genesis 7:3
“Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.”
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Practice Genesis 1:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthewatersaboundlivingcreatures,andletflyabovetheearthintheopenofthesky.”