Everyday words
Reaches
Start with Genesis 11:4, where the Bible uses the word reaches 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. Numbers 21:30
“We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.””
3. Psalms 36:5
“Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.”
4. Psalms 57:10
“For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.”
5. Psalms 71:19
“Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?”
6. Psalms 108:4
“For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.”
7. Isaiah 30:28
“His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.”
8. Jeremiah 4:10
“Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.””
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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.”