Everyday words
Language
Start with Genesis 10:5, where the Bible uses the word language in a real sentence: “Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:5
“Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.”
2. Genesis 11:1
“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
3. Genesis 11:6
“Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.”
4. Genesis 11:7
“Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.””
5. Genesis 11:9
“Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.”
6. Deuteronomy 28:49
“Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;”
7. 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.””
8. 2 Kings 18:28
“Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.”
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Practice Genesis 10:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Oftheseweretheislandsofthenationsdividedintheirlands,everyonehislanguage,theirintheirnations.