Places
Mizpah in Genesis 31
MIZ-puh
This place shows up in Genesis 31:49: “and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Genesis 31:49
“and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.”
What kids can learn
When you hear mizpah in Genesis, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Genesis 31:49 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Genesis 31:49
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andMizpah,forhesaid,“Yahwehbetweenmeandyou,weareonefromanother.