Everyday words
Thoroughly
Start with Genesis 11:3, where the Bible uses the word thoroughly in a real sentence: “They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. 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.”
2. Exodus 21:19
“if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.”
3. 2 Kings 11:18
“All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.”
4. Psalms 51:2
“Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.”
5. Psalms 119:140
“Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.”
6. Isaiah 1:25
“and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.”
7. Jeremiah 6:9
“Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.””
8. Jeremiah 7:5
“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 11:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
saidtooneanother,let’smakeandburnthemthoroughly.”Theyhadbrickforstone,andtheyusedtarformortar.