Everyday words
Ground
Start with Genesis 1:25, where the Bible uses the word ground in a real sentence: “God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:25
“God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.”
2. Genesis 2:5
“No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,”
3. Genesis 2:6
“but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.”
4. Genesis 2:7
“Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
5. Genesis 2:9
“Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
6. Genesis 2:19
“Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.”
7. Genesis 3:17
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.”
8. Genesis 3:19
“By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.””
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Practice Genesis 1:25
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godmadetheanimalsoftheearthafterkind,andthelivestockaftertheirkind,andeverythingthatonthegroundafteritskind.Godsawthatitwas