Everyday words
Stopped
Start with Genesis 8:2, where the Bible uses the word stopped in a real sentence: “The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:2
“The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.”
2. Genesis 11:8
“So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.”
3. Genesis 26:15
“Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.”
4. Genesis 26:18
“Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.”
5. Genesis 29:35
“She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time will I praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.”
6. Genesis 41:49
“Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.”
7. Leviticus 15:3
“This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.”
8. Numbers 16:50
“Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.”
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Practice Genesis 8:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Thedeep’sfountainsandthesky’salsostopped,andthefromtheskywasrestrained.