People and promise
Country
Start with Genesis 12:1, where the Bible uses the word country in a real sentence: “Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:1
“Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.”
2. Genesis 14:7
“They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.”
3. Genesis 24:4
“But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.””
4. Genesis 25:6
“but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.”
5. Genesis 30:25
“When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.”
6. Genesis 32:9
“Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’”
7. Genesis 36:8
“Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.”
8. Genesis 36:9
“This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:”
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Practice Genesis 12:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowYahwehsaidtoAbram,“Leaveyourcountry,andandfather’shouse,andgotothelandthatIwillshowyou.