People and promise
Counted
Start with Genesis 13:16, where the Bible uses the word counted 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 16:10
“Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.””
3. Genesis 32:12
“You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’””
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. Exodus 30:13
“They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.”
6. Exodus 30:14
“Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.”
7. Exodus 38:21
“This is the amount of material used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.”
8. Exodus 38:25
“The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 13:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillmakeoffspringasthedustofthesothatifamancancountthedustoftheearth,thenyouroffspringmaybecounted.