Everyday words
Grievous
Start with Genesis 18:20, where the Bible uses the word grievous in a real sentence: “Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 18:20
“Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,”
2. Genesis 21:11
“The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.”
3. Genesis 21:12
“God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.”
4. Genesis 41:31
“and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.”
5. Genesis 50:11
“When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.”
6. Exodus 8:24
“Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.”
7. Exodus 9:3
“behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.”
8. Exodus 9:18
“Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.”
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Practice Genesis 18:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahwehsaid,thecryofSodomandGomorrahisgreat,andbecausesinisgrievous,