Reference: Child, Children
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CHILD, CHILDREN
1. Value set on the possession of children.
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Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with [the help of] Yahweh."
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And [when] she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.
When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, "Give me children--if not, I will die!"
Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who [are] these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him.
And may El-Shaddai grant you compassion before the man that he may release your other brother to you and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved."
And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger [brother], the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'
"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving you.
And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
" 'And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
" 'And you shall not give {any of} your offspring in order to sacrifice [them] to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I [am] Yahweh.
Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.
"And to the {Israelites} you shall say, '[If there is] {anyone} from the {Israelites} or from the alien who is dwelling in Israel, who gives {any of} his offspring to Molech, he must surely be put to death; the people of the land must stone him with stones. And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given {some of} his offspring to Molech, so that {he makes my sanctuary unclean} and profanes {my holy name}. read more. And if the people of the land ever shut their eyes from that man at his giving {some of} his offspring to Molech, not putting him to death, then I myself will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut him off and all those from the midst of their people who prostitute after Molech.
Except, he may {not make numerous} for himself horses, and he may not allow the people to [to go] to Egypt {in order to increase horses}, for Yahweh has said to you that {you may never return}.
"{If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son} [who] {does not listen to} the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town}, read more. and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious; {he does not obey us}, [and] he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear.
'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.'
At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her [according to] his vow; and {she did not sleep with a man}. And it became an annual custom in Israel
(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)
His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him {year by year} whenever she came up with her husband to offer the {annual sacrifice}.
David pleaded [with] God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.
Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!" When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.
The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.
[He] causes the barren woman of the house to dwell [as] the happy mother of children. Praise Yah!
Look, children [are] the heritage of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb [is] a reward.
Your wife [will be] like a fruitful vine {within} your house. Your children [will be] like olive shoots about your table.
Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child [is] my soul with me.
My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,
because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son.
He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him {gives him} discipline.
A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.
Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it.
As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.
For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' [one] will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."
And a wolf shall {stay} with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads} them. And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle. read more. And {an infant} shall play over a serpent's hole, and {a toddler} shall put his hand on a viper's hole. They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my {holy mountain}, for the earth will be full [of the] knowledge [of] Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
And he said, "Surely my people [are] children; they will not break faith." And he became a Savior to them. In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old. read more. But they {were the ones who} rebelled, and they grieved {his Holy Spirit}, so he {became an enemy to them}; he himself fought against them.
And they built the high places of Baal that [are] in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to present as offerings their sons and their daughters to Molech, which I had not commanded them, and it had not come to my {mind} to do this detestable thing in order to cause Judah to sin."
And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'
"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,
For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household. read more. The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
At that time Jesus answered [and] said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these [things] from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to young children.
and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven!
"Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with [me], to take away my disgrace among people."
I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.'
A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.