Everyday words
Bound
Start with Genesis 22:9, where the Bible uses the word bound in a real sentence: “They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 22:9
“They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.”
2. Genesis 39:20
“Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.”
3. Genesis 40:3
“He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.”
4. Genesis 40:5
“They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.”
5. Genesis 42:16
“Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.””
6. Genesis 42:19
“If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.”
7. Genesis 42:24
“He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.”
8. Genesis 44:30
“Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;”
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Practice Genesis 22:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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