Everyday words
Nights
Start with Genesis 7:4, where the Bible uses the word nights in a real sentence: “In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 7:4
“In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.””
2. Genesis 7:12
“It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
3. Exodus 24:18
“Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.”
4. Exodus 34:28
“He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.”
5. Deuteronomy 9:9
“When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.”
6. Deuteronomy 9:11
“It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.”
7. Deuteronomy 9:18
“I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.”
8. Deuteronomy 9:25
“So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 7:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Indays,Icauseittorainontheearthfordaysandfortynights.IwilldestroyeverylivingthingthatIhavemadefromthesurfaceoftheground.”