Everyday words
Plucked
Start with Genesis 8:11, where the Bible uses the word plucked in a real sentence: “The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:11
“The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.”
2. Deuteronomy 28:63
“It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from the land that you are going in to possess.”
3. Judges 16:3
“Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.”
4. Judges 16:14
“She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.”
5. 2 Samuel 23:21
“He killed a huge Egyptian, and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.”
6. 1 Chronicles 11:23
“He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high. In the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear.”
7. Nehemiah 13:25
“I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.”
8. Job 4:21
“Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’”
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Practice Genesis 8:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thedovebacktohimatand,behold,inhermouthwasafreshlypluckedoliveleaf.SoNoahthatthewaterswereabatedfromtheearth.