Everyday words
Surface
Start with Genesis 1:2, where the Bible uses the word surface in a real sentence: “The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 1:2
“The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.”
2. Genesis 1:29
“God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”
3. Genesis 2:6
“but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.”
4. Genesis 4:14
“Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.””
5. Genesis 6:1
“When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,”
6. Genesis 6:7
“Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.””
7. Genesis 7:3
“Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.”
8. Genesis 7:4
“In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.””
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Say it
Practice Genesis 1:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theearthwasformlessandempty.DarknesswasonthesurfaceofthedeepandGod’swasovertheofthewaters.