Everyday words
Weight
Start with Genesis 24:22, where the Bible uses the word weight in a real sentence: “As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 24:22
“As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,”
2. Genesis 43:21
“When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.”
3. Exodus 30:34
“Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: there shall be an equal weight of each;”
4. Leviticus 19:35
““‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.”
5. Leviticus 26:26
“When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.”
6. Numbers 7:13
“and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;”
7. Numbers 7:19
“He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;”
8. Numbers 7:25
“gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;”
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Practice Genesis 24:22
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
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