Everyday words
Forty
Start with Genesis 5:13, where the Bible uses the word forty in a real sentence: “Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 5:13
“Kenan lived after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became the father of other sons and daughters”
2. Genesis 7:4
“In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.””
3. Genesis 7:12
“It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
4. Genesis 7:17
“The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.”
5. Genesis 8:6
“At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,”
6. Genesis 18:28
“What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.””
7. Genesis 18:29
“He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.””
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 5:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
livedafterhebecamethefatherofMahalaleleightyears,andbecamethefatherofothersonsanddaughters