Everyday words
Abram
Start with Genesis 11:26, where the Bible uses the word abram in a real sentence: “Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:26
“Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”
2. Genesis 11:27
“Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.”
3. Genesis 11:29
“Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.”
4. Genesis 11:31
“Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.”
5. Genesis 12:1
“Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.”
6. Genesis 12:4
“So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.”
7. Genesis 12:5
“Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.”
8. Genesis 12:6
“Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 11:26
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
livedseventyandbecamethefatherofNahor,andHaran.