Everyday words
Wilderness
Start with Genesis 14:6, where the Bible uses the word wilderness in a real sentence: “and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 14:6
“and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.”
2. Genesis 16:7
“Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.”
3. Genesis 21:14
“Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
4. Genesis 21:20
“God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.”
5. Genesis 21:21
“He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.”
6. Genesis 36:24
“These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.”
7. Genesis 37:22
“Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.”
8. Exodus 3:1
“Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.”
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Practice Genesis 14:6
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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