Everyday words
Lifted
Start with Genesis 4:7, where the Bible uses the word lifted in a real sentence: “If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:7
“If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.””
2. Genesis 7:17
“The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.”
3. 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.”
4. Genesis 14:22
“Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,”
5. Genesis 18:2
“He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,”
6. Genesis 21:16
“She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.”
7. Genesis 22:4
“On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.”
8. Genesis 22:13
“Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:7
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Ifyoudowon’titbeliftedup?Ifyoudon’tdowell,sincrouchesatthedoor.Itsisforyou,butyouaretoruleit.”