Everyday words
Restrained
Start with Genesis 8:2, where the Bible uses the word restrained in a real sentence: “The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:2
“The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.”
2. Genesis 16:2
“Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.”
3. Exodus 36:6
“Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.”
4. Esther 5:10
“Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.”
5. Job 42:2
““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.”
6. Psalms 76:10
“Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.”
7. Isaiah 14:6
“who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.”
8. Isaiah 42:14
““I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.”
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Practice Genesis 8:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thedeep’sfountainsandthesky’salsostopped,andthefromtheskywasrestrained.