Everyday words
Severe
Start with Genesis 12:10, where the Bible uses the word severe in a real sentence: “There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 12:10
“There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.”
2. Genesis 41:56
“The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.”
3. Genesis 41:57
“All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.”
4. Genesis 43:1
“The famine was severe in the land.”
5. Genesis 47:4
“They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.””
6. Genesis 47:13
“There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.”
7. Genesis 47:20
“So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.”
8. Genesis 50:10
“They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.”
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Practice Genesis 12:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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