Everyday words
Thousands
Start with Genesis 24:60, where the Bible uses the word thousands in a real sentence: “They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:60
“They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.””
2. Exodus 18:21
“Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
3. Exodus 18:25
“Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
4. Exodus 20:6
“and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
5. Exodus 34:7
“keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.””
6. Numbers 1:16
“These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.”
7. Numbers 10:4
“If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.”
8. Numbers 10:36
“When it rested, he said, “Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.””
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Practice Genesis 24:60
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
TheyblessedRebekah,andsaidtoher,“Oursister,mayyoubethemotherofoftenthousands,andletyourpossessthegateofthosewhohate