Everyday words
Weighed
Start with Genesis 23:16, where the Bible uses the word weighed in a real sentence: “Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 23:16
“Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.”
2. Numbers 7:86
“the twelve golden ladles, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the ladles weighed one hundred twenty shekels;”
3. 1 Samuel 2:3
““Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.”
4. 1 Samuel 17:7
“The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.”
5. 2 Samuel 14:26
“When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.”
6. 2 Kings 12:11
“They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house,”
7. 2 Kings 25:16
“The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the brass of all these vessels was not weighed.”
8. Ezra 8:25
“and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.”
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Practice Genesis 23:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
AbrahamlistenedtoweighedtoEphronthesilverwhichhehadnamedintheaudienceofthechildrenofHeth,fourhundredshekelsofsilver,accordingtothecurrentmerchants’