Everyday words
Shadow
Start with Genesis 19:8, where the Bible uses the word shadow in a real sentence: “See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 19:8
“See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.””
2. Judges 9:36
“When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” Zebul said to him, “You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.””
3. 2 Kings 20:9
“Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?””
4. 2 Kings 20:10
“Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.””
5. 2 Kings 20:11
“Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.”
6. 1 Chronicles 29:15
“For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.”
7. Job 3:5
“Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.”
8. Job 7:2
“As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 19:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Seenow,Itwovirgindaughters.Pleaseletmebringthemouttoyou,andyoumaydotowhatseemsgoodtoyou.Onlydon’tdoanythingtomen,becausetheyhavecomeundertheshadowofmyroof.”