Everyday words
Build
Start with Genesis 11:4, where the Bible uses the word build in a real sentence: “They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:4
“They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.””
2. Exodus 20:25
“If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.”
3. Numbers 23:1
“Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.””
4. Numbers 23:29
“Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.””
5. Numbers 32:16
“They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;”
6. Numbers 32:24
“Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.””
7. Deuteronomy 6:10
“It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,”
8. Deuteronomy 20:20
“Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 11:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theysaid,“Come,let’sbuildacity,andatowerwhosetopreachestothesky,andlet’sanameforlestwebescatteredabroadonthesurfaceofthewholeearth.”