Everyday words
Laban
Start with Genesis 24:29, where the Bible uses the word laban in a real sentence: “Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:29
“Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.”
2. Genesis 24:50
“Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.”
3. Genesis 25:20
“Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.”
4. Genesis 27:43
“Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.”
5. Genesis 28:2
“Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.”
6. Genesis 28:5
“Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.”
7. Genesis 29:5
“He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.””
8. Genesis 29:10
“When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 24:29
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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