13 Bible Verses about Breasts, Nursing Mothers

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1 Samuel 1:23

And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good in your eyes. Wait until you have weaned him; only may the LORD establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

1 Kings 3:20

She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Joel 2:16

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her chamber.

Luke 11:27

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the crowd lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you."

Luke 23:29

For look, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

Job 24:9

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Mark 13:17

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days.

Luke 21:23

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals offer the breast, they nurse their young ones, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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