Everyday words
Heifer
Start with Genesis 15:9, where the Bible uses the word heifer in a real sentence: “He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 15:9
“He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.””
2. Numbers 19:2
““This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.”
3. Numbers 19:5
“One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.”
4. Numbers 19:6
“The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.”
5. Numbers 19:9
““A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for use in water for cleansing impurity. It is a sin offering.”
6. Numbers 19:10
“He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.”
7. Deuteronomy 21:3
“It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke.”
8. Deuteronomy 21:4
“The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 15:9
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Hesaidtohim,“Bringmeaheiferyearsold,afemalegoatthreeold,aramthreeyearsold,aandayoungpigeon.”