Everyday words
Mamre
Start with Genesis 13:18, where the Bible uses the word mamre in a real sentence: “Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 13:18
“Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.”
2. Genesis 14:13
“One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and they were allies of Abram.”
3. Genesis 14:24
“I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.””
4. Genesis 18:1
“Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.”
5. Genesis 23:17
“So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded”
6. Genesis 23:19
“After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.”
7. 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,”
8. Genesis 35:27
“Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 13:18
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Abrammovedhistent,andandbytheoaksofwhichareinHebron,andbuiltanaltartheretoYahweh.