People and promise
Count
Start with Genesis 13:16, where the Bible uses the word count in a real sentence: “I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:16
“I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.”
2. Genesis 15:5
“Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.””
3. Exodus 12:4
“and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.”
4. Exodus 30:12
““When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.”
5. Leviticus 15:13
““‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.”
6. Leviticus 15:28
““‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.”
7. Leviticus 19:23
““‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years they shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.”
8. Leviticus 23:15
““‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:”
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Practice Genesis 13:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillmakeoffspringasthedustofthesothatifamancancountthedustoftheearth,thenyouroffspringmaybecounted.