Everyday words
Hearing
Start with Genesis 23:10, where the Bible uses the word hearing in a real sentence: “Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:10
“Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,”
2. Exodus 10:2
“and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.””
3. Exodus 24:7
“He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.””
4. Deuteronomy 31:11
“when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.”
5. 2 Kings 4:31
“Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.””
6. 2 Kings 18:26
“Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.””
7. Nehemiah 13:1
“On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,”
8. Job 33:8
““Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,”
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Practice Genesis 23:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowEphronwassittinginthemiddleofthechildrenoftheHittiteAbrahaminthehearingofthechildrenofHeth,evenofallwhowentinatthegateofhiscity,saying,