Everyday words
Generation
Start with Genesis 7:1, where the Bible uses the word generation in a real sentence: “Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 7:1
“Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.”
2. Genesis 15:16
“In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.””
3. Genesis 50:23
“Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.”
4. Exodus 1:6
“Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.”
5. Exodus 17:16
“He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’””
6. Exodus 20:5
“you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,”
7. Exodus 34:7
“keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.””
8. Numbers 14:18
“‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’”
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Practice Genesis 7:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehsaidtoNoah,“Comewithallofyourtheship,forIhaveseenyourrighteousnessbeforemeingeneration.