Everyday words
Tenth
Start with Genesis 8:5, where the Bible uses the word tenth in a real sentence: “The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 8:5
“The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.”
2. Genesis 14:20
“and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.”
3. 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.””
4. Exodus 12:3
“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;”
5. Exodus 16:36
“Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.”
6. Exodus 29:40
“and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.”
7. Leviticus 6:20
““This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.”
8. Leviticus 14:21
““If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;”
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Practice Genesis 8:5
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TherecededcontinuallyuntilthetenthInthetenthmonth,onthefirstdayofthemonth,thetopsofthemountainsvisible.