Everyday words
Eastward
Start with Genesis 2:8, where the Bible uses the word eastward in a real sentence: “Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:8
“Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
2. Genesis 13:14
“Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,”
3. 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.”
4. Exodus 27:13
“The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.”
5. Exodus 38:13
“For the east side eastward fifty cubits.”
6. Numbers 32:19
“For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.””
7. Numbers 34:3
“then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.”
8. Numbers 34:11
“The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.”
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Practice Genesis 2:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehGodplantedagardeninEden,andheputthemanhehadformed.