Everyday words
Whole
Start with Genesis 2:6, where the Bible uses the word whole in a real sentence: “but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 2:6
“but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.”
2. Genesis 2:11
“The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;”
3. Genesis 2:13
“The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.”
4. Genesis 7:19
“The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.”
5. Genesis 8:9
“but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.”
6. Genesis 9:19
“These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.”
7. Genesis 11:1
“The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
8. Genesis 11:4
“They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.””
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Practice Genesis 2:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
butamistupfromtheandthewholesurfaceoftheground.