People and promise
Japheth
Start with Genesis 5:32, where the Bible uses the word japheth in a real sentence: “Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 5:32
“Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
2. Genesis 6:10
“Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
3. Genesis 7:13
“In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—”
4. Genesis 9:18
“The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.”
5. Genesis 9:23
“Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.”
6. Genesis 9:27
“May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.””
7. Genesis 10:1
“Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.”
8. Genesis 10:2
“The sons of Japheth were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 5:32
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
wasfivehundredyearsold,becamethefatherofShem,Ham,andJapheth.