Everyday words
Shekel
Start with Genesis 24:22, where the Bible uses the word shekel in a real sentence: “As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:22
“As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,”
2. Exodus 30:13
“They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.”
3. Exodus 30:15
“The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”
4. Exodus 30:24
“and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.”
5. Exodus 38:24
“All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.”
6. Exodus 38:25
“The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:”
7. Exodus 38:26
“a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.”
8. Leviticus 27:3
“your valuation of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.”
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Practice Genesis 24:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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