Chapter 2 of Child's Story of the Bible is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Child's Story of the Bible is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE GREAT FLOOD. As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked. They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil. Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right. The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:
Chapter 2 of Child's Story of the Bible is here in full — 95 sentences across 19 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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spoiled or ruined or demolished
From this reading “The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:”
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
From this reading “THE GREAT FLOOD.”
inflected form of “forget” — dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
From this reading “They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.”
plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading “As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.”
the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis
From this reading “Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.”
plural of “plain” — extensive tract of level open land
From this reading “As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.”
morally bad in principle or practice
From this reading “As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.”
regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
From this reading “Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.”
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
in addition
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
spoiled or ruined or demolished
From this reading The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
morally objectionable behavior
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
From this reading THE GREAT FLOOD.
inflected form of “forget” — dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading THE GREAT FLOOD.
inflected form of “grow” — pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
and nothing more
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
above and across; more than
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
plural of “plain” — extensive tract of level open land
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
precisely, exactly
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:
distribute or disperse widely
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
not in physical motion
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE GREAT FLOOD.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading The people had destroyed themselves, and so God said to Noah:
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
precisely as stated
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading They forgot God, and all the thoughts of their hearts were evil.
morally bad in principle or practice
From this reading As the people of the earth grew to be many more and spread over the plains and hills, they also grew very wicked.
regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
From this reading Only Noah still worshipped God and tried to do right.
Chapter 2 of Child's Story of the Bible by Mary A. (Mary Artemisia) Lathbury holds 95 sentences, grouped into 19 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 2 holds 95 sentences of Child's Story of the Bible, unabridged, divided into 19 reading sections.
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