Everyday words
Fourteen
Start with Genesis 31:41, where the Bible uses the word fourteen in a real sentence: “These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:41
“These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.”
2. Genesis 46:22
“These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.”
3. Numbers 16:49
“Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.”
4. Numbers 29:13
“You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;”
5. Numbers 29:15
“and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;”
6. Numbers 29:17
““‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;”
7. Numbers 29:20
““‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;”
8. Numbers 29:23
““‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:41
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThesetwentyyearsIhavebeeninyourhouse.Iservedyoufourteenfortwodaughters,andsixyearsforyourandyouhavechangedmywagestentimes.