Animals
swallow in Numbers 16
SWAH-loh
This creature shows up in Numbers 16:30: “But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real creature in a real place.
Numbers 16:30
“But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.””
What kids can learn
When you hear swallow in Numbers, remember the sentence around it. God put this creature in the story on purpose.
Read Numbers 16:30 again tomorrow and ask what the creature is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Numbers 16:30
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Butifmakesanewthing,andthegroundopensitsmouth,andswallowsthemup,withallthatbelongtothem,andtheygodownaliveintoSheol;thenyoushallunderstandthatmenhavedespised