Everyday words
Separated
Start with Genesis 13:11, where the Bible uses the word separated in a real sentence: “So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:11
“So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.”
2. Genesis 13:14
“Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,”
3. Genesis 25:23
“Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.””
4. Genesis 30:40
“Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.”
5. Genesis 49:26
“The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.”
6. Exodus 33:16
“For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?””
7. Leviticus 20:24
“But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.”
8. Numbers 16:9
“Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;”
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Practice Genesis 13:11
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
SoLotthePlainoftheJordanforhimself.Lottraveledeast,andseparatedthemselvestheonetheother.