Everyday words
Issachar
Start with Genesis 30:18, where the Bible uses the word issachar in a real sentence: “Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 30:18
“Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.”
2. Genesis 35:23
“The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.”
3. Genesis 46:13
“The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.”
4. Genesis 49:14
““Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.”
5. Exodus 1:3
“Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,”
6. Numbers 1:8
“Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.”
7. Numbers 1:28
“Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;”
8. Numbers 1:29
“those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 30:18
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Leah“GodhasgivenmemybecauseImyservanttomyhusband.”ShenamedhimIssachar.