Everyday words
Thirteen
Start with Genesis 17:25, where the Bible uses the word thirteen in a real sentence: “Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 17:25
“Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.”
2. Numbers 29:13
“You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;”
3. Numbers 29:14
“and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,”
4. Joshua 19:6
“Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;”
5. Joshua 21:4
“The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.”
6. Joshua 21:6
“The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.”
7. Joshua 21:19
“All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.”
8. Joshua 21:33
“All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.”
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Practice Genesis 17:25
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Ishmael,hisson,wasthirteenoldhewasinthefleshofhisforeskin.