Everyday words
Sixty
Start with Genesis 5:15, where the Bible uses the word sixty in a real sentence: “Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 5:15
“Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Jared.”
2. Genesis 5:18
“Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.”
3. Genesis 5:20
“All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he died.”
4. Genesis 5:21
“Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.”
5. Genesis 5:23
“All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.”
6. Genesis 5:27
“All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.”
7. Genesis 25:26
“After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.”
8. Genesis 46:26
“All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 5:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Mahalalelsixty-fiveyears,thefatherofJared.