Everyday words
Burial
Start with Genesis 23:9, where the Bible uses the word burial in a real sentence: “that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:9
“that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.””
2. Genesis 23:20
“The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.”
3. Genesis 49:30
“in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.”
4. Genesis 50:13
“for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.”
5. Judges 16:31
“Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.”
6. 2 Chronicles 26:23
“So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.”
7. Ecclesiastes 6:3
“If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:”
8. Isaiah 14:20
“You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.”
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Practice Genesis 23:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
thathemaygivemethecaveofMachpelah,whichhehas,whichisintheendofhisfield.Forthefullpricelethimittomeamongyouasaforaplace.”