Everyday words
Opened
Start with Genesis 3:5, where the Bible uses the word opened in a real sentence: “for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:5
“for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.””
2. Genesis 3:7
“Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.”
3. Genesis 4:11
“Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.”
4. Genesis 7:11
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.”
5. Genesis 8:6
“At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,”
6. Genesis 21:19
“God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.”
7. Genesis 29:31
“Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.”
8. Genesis 30:22
“God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
forGodknowsthatinthedayyoueatit,eyeswillbeopened,andyouwillbelikeGod,knowingand