Everyday words
Borders
Start with Genesis 23:17, where the Bible uses the word borders in a real sentence: “So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:17
“So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded”
2. Exodus 8:2
“If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:”
3. Exodus 10:14
“The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.”
4. Exodus 10:19
“Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.”
5. Exodus 13:7
“Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.”
6. Exodus 16:35
“The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.”
7. Exodus 34:24
“For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.”
8. Numbers 15:38
““Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:”
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Practice Genesis 23:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
SotheofEphron,whichwasinMachpelah,whichwasbeforethefield,thecavewhichwasinit,andallthetreeswereinthefield,thatwereinallofitsborders,weredeeded