Everyday words
Spring
Start with Genesis 24:13, where the Bible uses the word spring in a real sentence: “Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:13
“Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.”
2. Genesis 24:16
“The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.”
3. Genesis 24:29
“Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.”
4. Genesis 24:30
“When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.”
5. Genesis 24:42
“I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—”
6. Genesis 24:43
“behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,””
7. Genesis 24:45
“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’”
8. Genesis 49:22
““Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.”
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Practice Genesis 24:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Behold,Iambytheofwater.Thedaughtersofthemenofthecityarecomingouttodraw