13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

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1 Samuel 1:23

"Do what you want," Elkanah told her. "Stay until you have weaned him, only may the LORD bring about what you've said." So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

1 Kings 3:20

She got up in the middle of the night, took my son from me while your servant was asleep, and laid him to her breast after laying her dead son next to me.

Job 3:12

Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?

Joel 2:16

Gather the people! Dedicate the congregation! Bring in the elders. Gather the youngsters and even the nursing infants. Call the bridegroom from his wedding preparations, and the bride from her dressing room.

Luke 11:27

As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and told him, "How blessed is the womb that gave birth to you and the breasts that nursed you!"

Luke 23:29

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

Job 24:9

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

Mark 13:17

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

Luke 21:23

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

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