Places
Gilead in Numbers 26
GIL-ee-ad
This place shows up in Numbers 26:29: “The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Numbers 26:29
“The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.”
What kids can learn
When you hear gilead in Numbers, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Numbers 26:29 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Numbers 26:29
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThesonsofManasseh:ofthefamilyoftheMachirites;andMachirbecametheofGilead;ofthefamilyoftheGileadites.