Grade 2 | SCRIPTURE STUDY
WEEK 4 • STUDENT TEXTBOOK • DAYS 16–20
Read each passage aloud from the King James Version with a parent or teacher, then study the worked example. Answer the day’s questions in the Week 4 Practice Workbook.
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The KJV writes LORD for Yahuah, God for Elohim, Jesus for Yahusha, and Holy Ghost for Ruach HaQodesh. Scripture quotations are printed exactly as they appear in the King James Version.
Day 16: One Language
Read aloud: Genesis 11:1-2 (KJV)
Genesis 11 tells about a time after the flood in the days of Noah. All the people on earth spoke one language, so everyone could understand everyone else.
The people traveled and found a flat land called Shinar, and they settled there.
Worked example, Genesis 11:1 (KJV): “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.”
Question: How many languages did the whole earth have?
- Find the word language.
- The verse says one language, and of one speech.
Worked answer: One.
Day 17: Let Us Make Us a Name
Read aloud: Genesis 11:3-4 (KJV)
The people made bricks and used them to build. They planned a city and a tall tower.
Read their words carefully. They wanted to make a name for themselves, meaning to make themselves great and famous. They also did not want to be scattered over the earth.
Worked example, Genesis 11:3 (KJV): “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”
Question: What did they use instead of stone?
- Find the word stone.
- The verse says they had brick for stone.
Worked answer: Brick.
Day 18: Yahuah Came Down
Read aloud: Genesis 11:5-6 (KJV)
The people planned a tower whose top may reach unto heaven. Then the verse says Yahuah came down to see the city and the tower.
Yahuah saw that the people were one and had one language, and that they were working together on their own plan.
Worked example, Genesis 11:3 (KJV): “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”
Question: What did they have for morter?
- Find the word morter.
- The words before it say slime had they.
Worked answer: Slime.
Day 19: Confounded and Scattered
Read aloud: Genesis 11:7-8 (KJV)
Yahuah confounded their language. Confound means to mix up, so that they could not understand one another.
Without one language, they could not finish their plan. Yahuah scattered them over the face of the earth, the very thing they had tried to stop.
Worked example, Genesis 11:5 (KJV): “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
Question: What did the LORD come down to see?
- Find the words came down to see.
- Read what comes next: the city and the tower.
Worked answer: The city and the tower.
Day 20: Independent Check: The Name Babel
Read aloud: Genesis 11:9 (KJV)
Today you will read a new verse and answer on your own.
Use what you practiced this week: find the exact words, and connect this verse to the people’s plan in Genesis 11:4.
Worked example, Genesis 11:4 (KJV): “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
Question: What did the people want to make for themselves?
- Find the words let us make us.
- Read what comes next: a name.
Worked answer: A name.
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