Everyday words
Egypt
Start with Genesis 12:10, where the Bible uses the word egypt in a real sentence: “There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:10
“There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.”
2. Genesis 12:11
“When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.”
3. Genesis 12:14
“When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.”
4. Genesis 13:1
“Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.”
5. Genesis 13:10
“Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.”
6. Genesis 15:18
“In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:”
7. Genesis 21:21
“He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.”
8. Genesis 25:18
“They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.”
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Practice Genesis 12:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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