Everyday words
Paddan
Start with Genesis 25:20, where the Bible uses the word paddan in a real sentence: “Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. 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.”
2. 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.”
3. 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.”
4. Genesis 28:6
“Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,””
5. Genesis 28:7
“and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.”
6. Genesis 31:18
“and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.”
7. Genesis 33:18
“Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.”
8. Genesis 35:9
“God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.”
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Practice Genesis 25:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IsaacwasfortyoldwhenhetookthedaughterofBethueltheofPaddanAram,thesisterofLabantheSyrian,tobehiswife.