Everyday words
Syrian
Start with Genesis 25:20, where the Bible uses the word syrian in a real sentence: “Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 25:20
“Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.”
2. Genesis 28:5
“Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.”
3. Genesis 31:20
“Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.”
4. Genesis 31:24
“God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.””
5. Deuteronomy 26:5
“You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.”
6. 2 Kings 5:20
“But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.””
7. 2 Kings 7:14
“Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.””
8. 2 Kings 18:26
“Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.””
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Practice Genesis 25:20
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
IsaacwasfortyoldwhenhetookthedaughterofBethueltheofPaddanAram,thesisterofLabantheSyrian,tobehiswife.