Everyday words
Pursued
Start with Genesis 14:14, where the Bible uses the word pursued in a real sentence: “When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:14
“When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.”
2. Genesis 14:15
“He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.”
3. Genesis 31:23
“He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.”
4. Genesis 31:36
“Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?”
5. Exodus 14:8
“Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.”
6. Exodus 14:9
“The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.”
7. Exodus 14:23
“The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
8. Deuteronomy 11:4
“and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 14:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Whenthathisrelativewastakencaptive,heledouthistrainedmen,borninhisthreehundredandeighteen,andpursuedasfarasDan.