People and promise
Closed
Start with Genesis 2:21, where the Bible uses the word closed in a real sentence: “Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:21
“Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.”
2. Genesis 20:18
“For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.”
3. Numbers 16:33
“So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.”
4. Judges 3:22
“and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.”
5. Isaiah 1:6
“From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.”
6. Isaiah 29:10
“For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.”
7. Ezekiel 40:16
“There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.”
8. Ezekiel 41:16
“the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 2:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodcausedthemantointoadeepAsthemanslept,hetookoneofhisribs,andcloseduptheinitsplace.