Everyday words
Faces
Start with Genesis 9:23, where the Bible uses the word faces in a real sentence: “Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 9:23
“Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.”
2. Genesis 30:40
“Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.”
3. Genesis 42:6
“Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.”
4. Exodus 10:10
“He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.”
5. Exodus 25:20
“The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.”
6. Exodus 37:9
“The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.”
7. Leviticus 9:24
“Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.”
8. Numbers 14:5
“Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.”
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Practice Genesis 9:23
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ShemandJaphethagarment,andlaiditonboththeirwentinbackwards,andcoveredthenakednessoftheirfather.Theirfacesbackwards,andtheydidn’tseetheirfather’snakedness.