Everyday words
Night
Start with Genesis 1:5, where the Bible uses the word night in a real sentence: “God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:5
“God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.”
2. Genesis 1:14
“God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;”
3. Genesis 1:16
“God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.”
4. Genesis 1:18
“and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.”
5. Genesis 8:22
“While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.””
6. Genesis 14:15
“He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.”
7. Genesis 19:2
“and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.””
8. Genesis 19:5
“They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.””
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Practice Genesis 1:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godcalledthelight“day”,andthedarknesshecalled“night”.wasandtherewasmorning,theday.