Everyday words
Burst
Start with Genesis 7:11, where the Bible uses the word burst in a real sentence: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 7:11
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.”
2. Job 26:8
“He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.”
3. Job 32:19
“Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.”
4. Psalms 98:4
“Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!”
5. Jeremiah 2:20
““For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.”
6. Jeremiah 5:5
“I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.”
7. Jeremiah 23:19
“Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm: It will burst on the head of the wicked.”
8. Jeremiah 30:8
“It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;”
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Practice Genesis 7:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Inthesixhundredthyearoflife,inthesecondmonth,ontheseventeenthdayofthemonth,onthesamedayallthefountainsofthedeepburstopen,andthesky’swindows