People
Rebekah in Genesis 25
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This person shows up in Genesis 25:20: “Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real person in a real place.
Genesis 25:20
“Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.”
What kids can learn
When you hear rebekah in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this person in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 25:20 again tomorrow and ask what the person is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 25:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IsaacwasfortyoldwhenhetookthedaughterofBethueltheofPaddanAram,thesisterofLabantheSyrian,tobehiswife.