Everyday words
Earth
Start with Genesis 1:1, where the Bible uses the word earth in a real sentence: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
2. 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.”
3. Genesis 1:10
“God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.”
4. Genesis 1:11
“God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.”
5. Genesis 1:12
“The earth yielded grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with their seeds in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.”
6. Genesis 1:15
“and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth”; and it was so.”
7. Genesis 1:17
“God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,”
8. Genesis 1:20
“God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.””
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Practice Genesis 1:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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