Everyday words
Higher
Start with Genesis 7:20, where the Bible uses the word higher in a real sentence: “The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 7:20
“The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.”
2. Numbers 24:7
“Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.”
3. Deuteronomy 28:43
“The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.”
4. 1 Samuel 10:23
“They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.”
5. Job 35:5
“Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.”
6. Psalms 61:2
“From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”
7. Ecclesiastes 5:8
“If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.”
8. Isaiah 55:9
““For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
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Practice Genesis 7:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thewatersfifteencubitsandthemountainscovered.