Everyday words
Rivers
Start with Genesis 2:10, where the Bible uses the word rivers in a real sentence: “A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:10
“A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.”
2. Exodus 8:5
“Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’””
3. Leviticus 11:9
““‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.”
4. Leviticus 11:10
“All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,”
5. 2 Kings 5:12
“Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.”
6. 2 Kings 19:24
“I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.””
7. Job 20:17
“He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.”
8. Psalms 74:15
“You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.”
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Practice Genesis 2:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
AriverwentoutofEdentothegarden;anditwasparted,andbecamethesourceoffourrivers.