Everyday words
Famine
Start with Genesis 12:10, where the Bible uses the word famine 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 26:1
“There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.”
3. 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.”
4. Genesis 41:30
“There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,”
5. Genesis 41:31
“and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.”
6. Genesis 41:36
“The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.””
7. Genesis 41:50
“To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.”
8. Genesis 41:54
“The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.”
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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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