'Child' in the Bible
"When your child asks you in the future, {saying}, 'What [is the meaning of] the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?'
Then you shall say to your child, 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand.
Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.
Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even [to] the tenth generation none {of his descendants} may come into the assembly of Yahweh.
Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.
When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.
When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.
When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full;
‘The one who denies justice to a foreigner, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
‘Outside the sword will bereave,And inside [the chambers] terror—For both young man and virgin,For the nursing child and the man of gray hair.
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Related Words
- Child's (24 instances in 12 translations)
- Child-conductor (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Child-conductors (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Childbearing (6 instances in 11 translations)
- Childbirth (29 instances in 10 translations)
- Childhood (30 instances in 11 translations)
- Childish (6 instances in 9 translations)
- Childishness (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Childless (37 instances in 12 translations)
- Childlessness (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Childlike (4 instances in 2 translations)
- Children (2020 instances in 13 translations)
- Children's (38 instances in 12 translations)
- Grandchild (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Grandchildren (21 instances in 10 translations)
- Maid-child (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Man-child (17 instances in 8 translations)
- Man-childless (1 instance in 5 translations)
- Men-children (2 instances in 1 translation)
- Women-children (1 instance in 1 translation)
Bible Theasaurus
- Baby (47 instances)
- Branch (67 instances)
- Child (442 instances)
- Daughter (342 instances)
- Descendant (129 instances)
- Heir (33 instances)
- Infant (22 instances)
- Innocent (124 instances)
- Kid (51 instances)
- Minor (10 instances)
- Youngster (5 instances)
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`alal
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