Everyday words
Ephah
Start with Genesis 25:4, where the Bible uses the word ephah in a real sentence: “The sons of Midian were: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 25:4
“The sons of Midian were: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.”
2. Exodus 16:36
“Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.”
3. Exodus 29:40
“and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.”
4. Leviticus 6:20
““This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.”
5. Leviticus 14:10
““On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.”
6. Leviticus 14:21
““If he is poor, and can’t afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;”
7. Leviticus 19:36
“You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
8. Leviticus 23:13
“The meal offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 25:4
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThesonsofMidianwere:Ephah,Epher,andEldaah.AlltheseweretheofKeturah.