Everyday words
Empty
Start with Genesis 1:2, where the Bible uses the word empty 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 31:42
“Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.””
3. Genesis 37:24
“and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.”
4. Genesis 41:27
“The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.”
5. Exodus 3:21
“I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.”
6. Exodus 23:15
“You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.”
7. Exodus 34:20
“You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.”
8. Leviticus 14:36
“The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean. Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.”
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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.