Everyday words
Searched
Start with Genesis 31:35, where the Bible uses the word searched in a real sentence: “She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:35
“She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.”
2. Genesis 44:12
“He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.”
3. 2 Kings 2:17
“When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.”
4. Ezra 6:1
“Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.”
5. Nehemiah 7:64
“These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.”
6. Job 5:27
“Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good.””
7. Job 28:27
“then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.”
8. Job 29:16
“I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:35
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Shesaidtoherfather,“Don’tletmybeangrythatIcan’triseupyou;forI’mhavingmyperiod.”Hesearched,butdidn’ttheteraphim.