Everyday words
Middle
Start with Genesis 1:6, where the Bible uses the word middle in a real sentence: “God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:6
“God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.””
2. Genesis 2:9
“Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
3. Genesis 3:3
“but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’””
4. Genesis 15:10
“He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.”
5. Genesis 19:29
“When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.”
6. Genesis 23:10
“Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,”
7. Genesis 29:7
“He said, “Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.””
8. Exodus 3:2
“Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
God“Letbeanexpanseinthemiddleoftheandletitdividethewatersfromthewaters.”