Places
Jordan in Genesis 50
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This place shows up in Genesis 50:10: “They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Genesis 50:10
“They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.”
What kids can learn
When you hear jordan in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 50:10 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 50:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TheycametothethreshingofAtad,whichisbeyondtheJordan,andtherelamentedwithaverygreatandseverelamentation.Heforhisfathersevendays.