Everyday words
Rolled
Start with Genesis 29:3, where the Bible uses the word rolled in a real sentence: “There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 29:3
“There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.”
2. Genesis 29:10
“When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.”
3. Joshua 5:9
“Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.”
4. 2 Kings 2:8
“Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.”
5. Isaiah 9:5
“For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.”
6. Isaiah 34:4
“All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.”
7. Isaiah 38:12
“My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.”
8. Micah 1:10
“Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.”
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Practice Genesis 29:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Therealltheflocksweregathered.Theythestonefromthewell’smouth,andthesheep,andputthestoneagainonthewell’sinitsplace.