Everyday words
Lower
Start with Genesis 6:16, where the Bible uses the word lower in a real sentence: “You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:16
“You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.”
2. Exodus 19:17
“Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.”
3. Leviticus 13:20
“and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.”
4. Leviticus 13:26
“But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn’t lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.”
5. 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.”
6. Joshua 15:19
“She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.”
7. Joshua 16:3
“and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.”
8. Joshua 18:13
“The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.”
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Practice Genesis 6:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Youshallmakearoofintheship,andyoushallfinishittoacubitupward.Youshallsettheoftheshipinitsside.Youmakeitwithsecond,andthirdlevels.