Everyday words
Upward
Start with Genesis 6:16, where the Bible uses the word upward in a real sentence: “You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:16
“You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.”
2. Exodus 25:20
“The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.”
3. Exodus 30:14
“Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.”
4. Exodus 38:26
“a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.”
5. Leviticus 27:7
“If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.”
6. Numbers 1:3
“from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.”
7. Numbers 1:18
“They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.”
8. Numbers 1:20
“The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Youshallmakearoofintheship,andyoushallfinishittoacubitupward.Youshallsettheoftheshipinitsside.Youmakeitwithsecond,andthirdlevels.