Everyday words
Villages
Start with Genesis 25:16, where the Bible uses the word villages in a real sentence: “These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments:…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. 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.”
2. Leviticus 25:31
“But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.”
3. Numbers 21:25
“Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.”
4. Numbers 21:32
“Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.”
5. Numbers 32:41
“Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.”
6. Numbers 32:42
“Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.”
7. Deuteronomy 2:23
“and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)”
8. Deuteronomy 3:5
“All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 25:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ThesearetheofIshmael,andthesearetheirnames,bytheirandbytheirencampments:princes,accordingtotheirnations.