Everyday words
Escape
Start with Genesis 19:17, where the Bible uses the word escape in a real sentence: “It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:17
“It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!””
2. Genesis 19:19
“See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.”
3. Genesis 19:20
“See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.””
4. Genesis 19:22
“Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”
5. Genesis 32:8
“and he said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.””
6. Exodus 1:10
“Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.””
7. Joshua 8:22
“The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.”
8. 2 Samuel 15:14
“David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.””
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Practice Genesis 19:17
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Itcametopass,whenhadtakenthemout,thathesaid,“EscapeforyourDon’tlookbehindyou,anddon’tanywhereintheplain.Escapetothemountains,lestyoubeconsumed!”