Everyday words
Ourselves
Start with Genesis 11:4, where the Bible uses the word ourselves in a real sentence: “They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:4
“They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.””
2. Genesis 37:10
“He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?””
3. Genesis 43:7
“They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’””
4. Genesis 44:16
“Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.””
5. Numbers 32:17
“but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.”
6. Deuteronomy 2:35
“Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.”
7. Deuteronomy 3:7
“But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.”
8. Joshua 22:17
“Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,”
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Practice Genesis 11:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theysaid,“Come,let’sbuildacity,andatowerwhosetopreachestothesky,andlet’sanameforlestwebescatteredabroadonthesurfaceofthewholeearth.”