Everyday words
Opposite
Start with Genesis 15:10, where the Bible uses the word opposite in a real sentence: “He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:10
“He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.”
2. Genesis 16:12
“He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.””
3. Genesis 18:2
“He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,”
4. Genesis 21:16
“She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.”
5. Genesis 25:18
“They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.”
6. Genesis 30:38
“He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.”
7. Exodus 14:2
““Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.”
8. Exodus 26:5
“You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another.”
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Practice Genesis 15:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hebroughthimallthese,anddividedinthemiddle,andeachhalfoppositetheother;buthedividethebirds.