Everyday words
Breath
Start with Genesis 2:7, where the Bible uses the word breath in a real sentence: “Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:7
“Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
2. Genesis 6:17
“I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.”
3. Genesis 7:15
“Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.”
4. Genesis 7:22
“All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.”
5. 2 Samuel 22:16
“Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.”
6. 1 Kings 17:17
“After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
7. Job 4:9
“By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.”
8. Job 7:7
“Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.”
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Practice Genesis 2:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodformedmanfromtheoftheground,andbreathedhisnostrilstheoflife;andmanbecamealivingsoul.