Everyday words
Hittite
Start with Genesis 23:10, where the Bible uses the word hittite in a real sentence: “Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:10
“Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,”
2. Genesis 25:9
“Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,”
3. Genesis 26:34
“When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.”
4. Genesis 36:2
“Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;”
5. Genesis 49:29
“He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,”
6. Genesis 49:30
“in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.”
7. Genesis 50:13
“for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.”
8. Exodus 3:17
“and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’”
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Practice Genesis 23:10
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
NowEphronwassittinginthemiddleofthechildrenoftheHittiteAbrahaminthehearingofthechildrenofHeth,evenofallwhowentinatthegateofhiscity,saying,