Everyday words
Stars
Start with Genesis 1:16, where the Bible uses the word stars in a real sentence: “God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:16
“God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.”
2. Genesis 15:5
“Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.””
3. Genesis 22:17
“that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.”
4. Genesis 26:4
“I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed,”
5. Genesis 37:9
“He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.””
6. Deuteronomy 1:10
“Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.”
7. Deuteronomy 4:19
“and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.”
8. Deuteronomy 10:22
“Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.”
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Practice Genesis 1:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godmadethetwogreatlights:thelighttoruletheday,andthelighttothenight.Healsomadethestars.