Everyday words
Gathering
Start with Genesis 1:10, where the Bible uses the word gathering in a real sentence: “God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:10
“God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.”
2. Numbers 15:32
“While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.”
3. Numbers 15:33
“Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.”
4. 2 Samuel 22:12
“He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.”
5. 1 Kings 17:10
“So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.””
6. 1 Kings 17:12
“She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.””
7. Matthew 2:4
“Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.”
8. Matthew 25:24
““He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godthedryland“earth”,andthegatheringtogetherofthewatershe“seas”.Godsawitwasgood.