Everyday words
Fifteen
Start with Genesis 5:10, where the Bible uses the word fifteen in a real sentence: “Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 5:10
“Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.”
2. Genesis 7:20
“The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.”
3. Exodus 27:14
“The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.”
4. Exodus 27:15
“For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.”
5. Exodus 38:14
“The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;”
6. Exodus 38:15
“and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.”
7. Leviticus 27:7
“If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.”
8. Judges 8:10
“Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.”
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Practice Genesis 5:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
EnoshlivedhebecamethefatherofKenan,eighthundredfifteenyears,andbecametheofsonsanddaughters.