Everyday words
Mountain
Start with Genesis 10:30, where the Bible uses the word mountain in a real sentence: “Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:30
“Their dwelling extended from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.”
2. Genesis 12:8
“He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.”
3. Genesis 19:19
“See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.”
4. Genesis 19:30
“Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.”
5. Genesis 22:14
“Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.””
6. Genesis 31:21
“So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.”
7. Genesis 31:23
“He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.”
8. Genesis 31:25
“Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.”
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Practice Genesis 10:30
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
dwellingextendedasyougotowardSephar,themountainoftheeast.