Everyday words
Seventy
Start with Genesis 4:24, where the Bible uses the word seventy in a real sentence: “If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 4:24
“If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.””
2. Genesis 5:12
“Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.”
3. Genesis 5:31
“All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.”
4. Genesis 11:26
“Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”
5. Genesis 12:4
“So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.”
6. Genesis 25:7
“These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.”
7. Genesis 46:27
“The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.”
8. Genesis 50:3
“Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 4:24
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IfCainbeseventrulyLamechseventy-seventimes.”