Everyday words
Twelve
Start with Genesis 5:8, where the Bible uses the word twelve in a real sentence: “All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 5:8
“All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.”
2. Genesis 14:4
“They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.”
3. Genesis 17:20
“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.”
4. Genesis 25:16
“These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.”
5. Genesis 35:22
“While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.”
6. Genesis 42:13
“They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.””
7. Genesis 42:32
“We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’”
8. Genesis 49:28
“All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.”
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Practice Genesis 5:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
AlloftheofSethweretwelveyears,thenhedied.