Everyday words
Daughter
Start with Genesis 11:29, where the Bible uses the word daughter in a real sentence: “Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah,…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. 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.”
2. 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.”
3. Genesis 20:12
“Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.”
4. Genesis 24:23
“and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?””
5. Genesis 24:24
“She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.””
6. Genesis 24:47
“I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.”
7. Genesis 24:48
“I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.”
8. Genesis 25:20
“Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.”
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Practice Genesis 11:29
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
AbramandNahorwives.TheofAbram’swifewasSarai,andthenameofNahor’swifewasMilcah,thedaughterofHaranwhowasthefatherofIscah.