Everyday words
Built
Start with Genesis 4:17, where the Bible uses the word built in a real sentence: “Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:17
“Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.”
2. Genesis 8:20
“Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”
3. Genesis 10:11
“Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,”
4. Genesis 11:5
“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”
5. Genesis 12:7
“Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.”
6. Genesis 12:8
“He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.”
7. Genesis 13:18
“Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.”
8. 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.”
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Practice Genesis 4:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Cainknewhiswife.Sheconceived,andbirthtoEnoch.Hebuiltacity,andcalledthenameofthecity,theofhisson,Enoch.