Everyday words
Forth
Start with Genesis 8:7, where the Bible uses the word forth in a real sentence: “and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:7
“and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.”
2. Exodus 32:27
“He said to them, “Yahweh says, the God of Israel, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’””
3. Numbers 32:13
“Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight, was consumed.”
4. Deuteronomy 28:25
“Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.”
5. Judges 9:9
““But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’”
6. Judges 9:11
““But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’”
7. Judges 9:13
““The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’”
8. 1 Samuel 17:15
“Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.”
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Practice Genesis 8:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andhesentoutaraven.Itbackandforth,thewatersdriedupfromtheearth.