Everyday words
Rooms
Start with Genesis 6:14, where the Bible uses the word rooms in a real sentence: “Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:14
“Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.”
2. Deuteronomy 32:25
“Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.”
3. 1 Kings 6:5
“Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.”
4. 1 Kings 6:8
“The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.”
5. 1 Chronicles 9:26
“for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.”
6. 1 Chronicles 9:33
“These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.”
7. 1 Chronicles 23:28
“For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;”
8. 1 Chronicles 28:11
“Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;”
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Practice Genesis 6:14
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Makeashipofgopherwood.Youshallmakeintheandshallsealitinsideandwithpitch.