Everyday words
Living
Start with Genesis 1:20, where the Bible uses the word living in a real sentence: “God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:20
“God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.””
2. Genesis 1:21
“God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.”
3. Genesis 1:24
“God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.”
4. Genesis 1:28
“God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
5. Genesis 2:7
“Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
6. Genesis 2:19
“Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.”
7. Genesis 3:20
“The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.”
8. Genesis 6:19
“Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godsaid,“Letthewatersaboundlivingcreatures,andletflyabovetheearthintheopenofthesky.”