Everyday words
Sight
Start with Genesis 2:9, where the Bible uses the word sight in a real sentence: “Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:9
“Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
2. Genesis 18:3
“and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.”
3. Genesis 19:19
“See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.”
4. Genesis 21:11
“The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.”
5. Genesis 21:12
“God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.”
6. Genesis 23:4
““I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.””
7. Genesis 23:8
“He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,”
8. Genesis 32:5
“I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’””
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Practice Genesis 2:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
OutofthegroundYahwehGodmadeeverytothatispleasanttothesight,andgoodforfood,includingtheoflifeinthemiddleofthegardenandthetreeoftheknowledgeofgoodandevil.