Everyday words
First
Start with Genesis 1:5, where the Bible uses the word first in a real sentence: “God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:5
“God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.”
2. Genesis 2:11
“The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;”
3. Genesis 4:19
“Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.”
4. Genesis 8:5
“The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.”
5. Genesis 8:13
“In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.”
6. Genesis 13:4
“to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.”
7. Genesis 25:25
“The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.”
8. Genesis 25:31
“Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godcalledthelight“day”,andthedarknesshecalled“night”.wasandtherewasmorning,theday.