Everyday words
Scattered
Start with Genesis 11:4, where the Bible uses the word scattered 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. Genesis 11:8
“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”
3. Genesis 11:9
“Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.”
4. Exodus 5:12
“So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.”
5. Exodus 32:20
“He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.”
6. Numbers 10:35
“When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!””
7. Deuteronomy 30:3
“that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.”
8. 1 Samuel 11:11
“On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.”
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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.”