Everyday words
Foreigner
Start with Genesis 12:10, where the Bible uses the word foreigner 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 17:12
“He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.”
3. Genesis 17:27
“All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.”
4. Genesis 19:9
“They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.”
5. Genesis 20:1
“Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.”
6. Genesis 21:23
“Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.””
7. Genesis 21:34
“Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.”
8. Genesis 23:4
““I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.””
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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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