Everyday words
Stone
Start with Genesis 2:12, where the Bible uses the word stone in a real sentence: “and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:12
“and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.”
2. Genesis 11:3
“They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.”
3. Genesis 28:18
“Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.”
4. Genesis 28:22
“then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.””
5. Genesis 29:2
“He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.”
6. Genesis 29:3
“There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.”
7. Genesis 29:8
“They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.””
8. Genesis 29:10
“When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.”
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Practice Genesis 2:12
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andthegoldoflandisandonyxstonearealsothere.