Everyday words
Northward
Start with Genesis 13:14, where the Bible uses the word northward in a real sentence: “Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:14
“Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,”
2. Exodus 40:22
“He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.”
3. Deuteronomy 2:3
““You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.”
4. Deuteronomy 3:27
“Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.”
5. Joshua 13:3
“from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,”
6. Joshua 15:7
“The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that faces the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.”
7. Joshua 15:11
“and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.”
8. Joshua 17:10
“Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 13:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
YahwehsaidtoAbram,afterLotwasseparatedfromhim,“Now,upyoureyes,andlookthewhereyouare,northwardandsouthwardandeastwardandwestward,