Everyday words
Ephron
Start with Genesis 23:8, where the Bible uses the word ephron in a real sentence: “He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:8
“He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,”
2. Genesis 23:10
“Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,”
3. Genesis 23:13
“He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.””
4. Genesis 23:14
“Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,”
5. Genesis 23:16
“Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.”
6. Genesis 23:17
“So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded”
7. Genesis 25:9
“Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,”
8. Genesis 49:29
“He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,”
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Practice Genesis 23:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hewiththem,saying,“IfyouagreeIshouldmydeadoutofmysight,hearme,andentreatformetoEphronthesonofZohar,