This morning, we began reading Ether in our family Book of Mormon reading. Much of the chapter contains a genealogy of Ether. We didn't read all of it because it's a lot of names that mean nothing to the children. I thought we would just read verse six, then jump to 33 and move on. Brandt wanted to read 6-12, but Kent said, "No. We aren't going to read this whole thing. But, I want you to look through these names and pick one you would name a goldfish."
What? What do goldfish have to do with scripture study? Why are we taking time to do this? Talk about a distraction from an unusual source. We have lots of distractions, but practically all of them come from people who live in our house who haven't yet reached their teens.
So we looked through the below list and picked names.
6 And on this wise do I
give the account. He that wrote this record was Ether, and he was a
descendant of Coriantor.
7 Coriantor
was the son of Moron.
8 And
Moron was the son of Ethem.
9 And
Ethem was the son of Ahah.
10 And
Ahah was the son of Seth.
11 And
Seth was the son of Shiblon.
12 And
Shiblon was the son of Com.
13 And
Com was the son of Coriantum.
14 And
Coriantum was the son of Amnigaddah.
15 And
Amnigaddah was the son of Aaron.
16 And
Aaron was a descendant of Heth, who was the son of Hearthom.
17 And
Hearthom was the son of Lib.
18 And
Lib was the son of Kish.
19 And
Kish was the son of Corom.
20 And
Corom was the son of Levi.
21 And
Levi was the son of Kim.
22 And
Kim was the son of Morianton.
23 And
Morianton was a descendant of Riplakish.
24 And
Riplakish was the son of Shez.
25 And
Shez was the son of Heth.
26 And
Heth was the son of Com.
27 And
Com was the son of Coriantum.
28 And
Coriantum was the son of Emer.
29 And
Emer was the son of Omer.
30 And
Omer was the son of Shule.
31 And
Shule was the son of Kib.
32 And Kib was
the son of Orihah, who was the son of Jared;
33 Which Jared came
forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families,
from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of
the people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all
the face of the earth; and according to the word of the Lord the
people were scattered.
I chose Riplakish, because I like the idea of "Riplakish the goldfish." Three syllables and three syllables and it rhymes.
Kent chose the simpler Kish. One syllable each. "Kish the fish."
Blythe chose Kim.
Brandt, with a hardly repressed giggle, chose Shiz. When I pointed out that it was actually Sh-E-z, he said, "I don't care! I like Shiz. You know, like shiz, tee-hee-hee." Shiz does come into play in Ether, just not until chapter 15. He is such a boy!
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