Everyday words
Darkness
Start with Genesis 1:2, where the Bible uses the word darkness in a real sentence: “The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:2
“The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.”
2. Genesis 1:4
“God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.”
3. Genesis 1:5
“God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.”
4. Genesis 1:18
“and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.”
5. Genesis 15:12
“When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.”
6. Exodus 10:21
“Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.””
7. Exodus 10:22
“Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.”
8. Exodus 14:20
“It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.”
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Practice Genesis 1:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theearthwasformlessandempty.DarknesswasonthesurfaceofthedeepandGod’swasovertheofthewaters.