People and promise
Jordan
Start with Genesis 13:10, where the Bible uses the word jordan in a real sentence: “Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:10
“Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.”
2. Genesis 13:11
“So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.”
3. Genesis 32:10
“I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.”
4. Genesis 50:10
“They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.”
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. Numbers 13:29
“Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.””
7. Numbers 22:1
“The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.”
8. Numbers 26:3
“Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,”
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Practice Genesis 13:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Lotlifteduphiseyes,andsawalltheplainoftheJordan,thatitwaseverywhere,beforeYahwehdestroyedSodomandGomorrah,likethegardenofYahweh,thelandofasyougotoZoar.