Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.

Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

Rachel had not borne Jacob any children. As a result, she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob: Give me children, or I will die.

Esau looked around and saw the women and the children. He asked: Who are these people with you? Jacob answered: These are the children whom God has been good enough to give me.

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

May God Almighty cause the man to have pity on you, so that he will give Benjamin and your other brother back to you. As for me, if I must lose my children, I must lose them.

We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

He who strikes (beats) his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.

Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah!

Respect your mother and father. Observe my days of worship. I am Jehovah your God!

Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death. I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech. They made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name. read more. If the people of the land ignore those who give their children to Molech and do not put them to death, I will condemn them and their families. I will exclude them from the people. I will exclude from the people everyone who chases after Molech as if he were a prostitute.

He must not increase his herd of horses. He must not send the people to return to Egypt to get more horses. For Jehovah said to you: You should never again return that way.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen or obey his father or his mother when they chastise him, His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. read more. They shall say to the elders of his city: This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious! He will not obey us! He is a glutton and a drunkard. All the men of his city shall stone him to death. In that way you will remove the evil from your midst. All Israel will hear about it and fear.

Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or mother. All the people will say: Amen.

She returned to her father after two months. He did what he had promised Jehovah, and she died still a virgin. This was the origin of the custom in Israel.

The other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy. This is because Jehovah had not given her children.

His mother made him a little robe. She brought it to him when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.

Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: Get out of here, baldy! Elisha turned around and glared at them. He cursed them in the name of Jehovah. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.

Years later at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers.

He makes a childless woman a joyful mother. Praise Jehovah!

Children are an inheritance from Jehovah. They are a blessing from him.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. Your children will be like young olive trees around your table.

Surely I am composed and quiet. I am like a weaned child who rests against his mother. Inside of me I am like a weaned child.

My son, listen to the instruction of your father. Do not forsake the law of your mother.

For whom Jehovah loves He reproves, just like a father corrects the son he loves dearly. (Hebrews 12:6)

He who spares the rod (authority) hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines (instructs) him promptly.

A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who accepts discipline is prudent.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Before the boy knows how to say Father or Mother the wealth of Damascus and the loot from Samaria will be carried away to the king of Assyria.

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them. Also the cow and the bear will graze. Their young will lie down together. And the lion will eat straw like the ox. read more. The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra. The weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. They will not hurt or destroy in my entire holy mountain. This is because the earth will be full of the knowledge of Jehovah just as the waters cover the sea.

He said: They are my people, sons who will not lie to me. So he became their Savior. In all their difficulty he was concerned, and he was the messenger who saved them. In his love and compassion he reclaimed (redeemed) them. He always held them and carried them in the past. read more. But they rebelled and grieved (offended and hurt) his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy. He fought against them.

In the valley of Ben Hinnom they built worship sites for Baal to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I did not ask them to do this. It never entered my heart (mind). I did not make Judah sin.'

The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing there in the streets.

People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.

My coming will cause a separation. A man will be against his father and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be from his own family. read more. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not pick up his stake and follow me is not worthy of me.

Then Jesus prayed: I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36)

He said: Truly I tell you, if you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

She said: This is the way God has dealt with me by taking away my reproach among men. (1 Samuel 1:11)

I am not fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired workers.'

A woman in tribulation has sorrow, because her hour to give birth has come. When she delivers the child, she remembers no more anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.