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Dry Bones

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EZEKIEL
The vision of the valley of dry bones comes from the Book of Ezekiel, chapter 37, one of the most vivid prophetic passages in the Hebrew Bible.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SINEW
In the spiritual's lyric, sinew appears before flesh, layering the body back together in careful, deliberate order, tendons first, then muscle, then skin.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RATTLING
"And there was a noise, and behold a rattling", that single word, rattling, has echoed through American gospel and spiritual singing for well over a century.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BACKBONE
The call-and-response chain of bones, knee bone connected to the thigh bone, thigh bone connected to the backbone, gives the spiritual its unforgettable, rolling momentum.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Dry Bones, a free, large-print word search built around Ezekiel's valley, where scattered bones rattled, rose, and breathed again.

About Dry Bones

Few songs carry the weight of a whole vision the way "Dry Bones" does. Rooted in the prophecy of Ezekiel, the spiritual walks bone by bone, ankle to knee, knee to thigh, thigh to backbone, until sinew covers the skeleton and breath fills the lungs again. Generations of singers have felt the shiver of that rattling rise, a whole army standing on its feet in a sun-scorched valley, alive once more.

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