The men who ate numbered four thousand, apart from the children and the women.

The men who ate numbered about five thousand, apart from the women and children.

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:

they are not all children of Abraham because they are descended from Abraham. No, it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??8 meaning that instead of God's children being the children born to him by natural descent, it is the children of the Promise who are reckoned as his true offspring.