Everyday words
Wander
Start with Genesis 20:13, where the Bible uses the word wander in a real sentence: “When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 20:13
“When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’””
2. Numbers 32:13
“Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight, was consumed.”
3. 2 Kings 21:8
“I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.””
4. Job 12:24
“He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.”
5. Job 38:41
“Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?”
6. Psalms 55:7
“Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.”
7. Psalms 59:15
“They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.”
8. Psalms 107:40
“He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 20:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Godcausedmetowanderfrommyfather’shouse,Isaidtoher,‘Thisisyourkindnessyoushalltome.Everywherethatwego,sayofme,“Heismybrother.”’”