Everyday words
Shelah
Start with Genesis 10:24, where the Bible uses the word shelah in a real sentence: “Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 10:24
“Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.”
2. Genesis 11:12
“Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.”
3. Genesis 11:13
“Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.”
4. Genesis 11:14
“Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.”
5. Genesis 11:15
“Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.”
6. Genesis 38:5
“She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.”
7. Genesis 38:11
“Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up”; for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.”
8. Genesis 38:14
“She took off her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 10:24
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
becamethefatherofShelahbecametheofEber.