Everyday words
Gather
Start with Genesis 6:21, where the Bible uses the word gather in a real sentence: “Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:21
“Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.””
2. Genesis 29:7
“He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.””
3. Genesis 31:46
“Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.”
4. Genesis 41:35
“Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.”
5. Genesis 49:1
“Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.”
6. Exodus 3:16
“Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;”
7. Exodus 5:7
““You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.”
8. Exodus 5:12
“So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Takewithyousomeofallfoodiseaten,andittoyourself;anditbeforfoodforyou,andforthem.”