Everyday words
Haran
Start with Genesis 11:26, where the Bible uses the word haran in a real sentence: “Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 11:26
“Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”
2. Genesis 11:27
“Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.”
3. Genesis 11:28
“Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.”
4. Genesis 11:29
“Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.”
5. Genesis 11:31
“Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.”
6. Genesis 11:32
“The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.”
7. Genesis 12:4
“So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.”
8. Genesis 12:5
“Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.”
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Practice Genesis 11:26
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
livedseventyandbecamethefatherofNahor,andHaran.