May the man be cursed
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A male child is born to you,”
bringing him great joy.

Ask and see
whether a male can give birth.
Why then do I see every man
with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor
and every face turned pale?

so each man would free his male and female Hebrew slaves and no one would enslave his Judean brother.

All the officials and people who entered into covenant to free their male and female slaves—in order not to enslave them any longer—obeyed and freed them.

Afterward, however, they changed their minds and took back their male and female slaves they had freed and forced them to become slaves again.

But you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each has taken back his male and female slaves who had been freed to go wherever they wanted, and you have again subjugated them to be your slaves.

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams together with male goats.

You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you, and you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them.

But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

“The Lord God says to you, My flock: I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and male goats.

You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.

“On the second day you are to present an unblemished male goat as a sin offering. They will purify the altar just as they did with the bull.

During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering.

“You must offer an unblemished year-old male lamb as a daily burnt offering to the Lord; you will offer it every morning.

As I was observing, a male goat appeared, coming from the west across the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.

Then the male goat became very great, but when he became powerful, the large horn was shattered. Four conspicuous horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

I will even pour out My Spirit
on the male and female slaves in those days.

“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “and My name will be feared among the nations.

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord: Every firstborn male will be dedicated to the Lord)

But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

I will even pour out My Spirit
on My male and female slaves in those days,
and they will prophesy.

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But she gave birth to a Son—a male who is going to shepherd all nations with an iron scepter—and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

When the dragon saw that he had been thrown to earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.