Everyday words
Great
Start with Genesis 1:16, where the Bible uses the word great in a real sentence: “God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:16
“God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.”
2. Genesis 6:5
“Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.”
3. Genesis 7:11
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.”
4. Genesis 10:12
“and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.”
5. Genesis 12:2
“I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.”
6. Genesis 12:17
“Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.”
7. Genesis 13:6
“The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.”
8. Genesis 15:1
“After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godmadethetwogreatlights:thelighttoruletheday,andthelighttothenight.Healsomadethestars.