Everyday words
Shekels
Start with Genesis 23:15, where the Bible uses the word shekels in a real sentence: ““My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you?…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:15
““My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.””
2. Genesis 23:16
“Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.”
3. 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,”
4. Exodus 21:32
“If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.”
5. Exodus 30:23
““Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;”
6. 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.”
7. 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:”
8. Exodus 38:28
“Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 23:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Mylord,listentome.Whatisapieceoflandworthfourofsilverbetweenmeandyou?buryyourdead.”