'Children' in the Bible

Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.

As they were given by the Lord to Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when the Lord gave orders to the children of Israel to make their offerings to the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai.

And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;

Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.

And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.

Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.

Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean.

In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering.

And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land.

And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given.

So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.

For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;

And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.

Give orders to Aaron and to his sons to keep themselves separate from the holy things of the children of Israel which they give to me, and not to make my holy name common: I am the Lord,

Say to them, If any man of all your seed through all your generations, being unclean, comes near the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the Lord, he will be cut off from before me: I am the Lord.

And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;

And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;

Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship.

Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.

Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.

And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;

And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.

Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief.

On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.

On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.

These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.

And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.

And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel.

See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names.

And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel.

So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.

Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.

And the price you have to give for the two hundred and seventy-three first sons of the children of Israel which are in addition to the number of the Levites,

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,

So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will give them my blessing.

On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:

On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben:

On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon:

On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad:

On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of the children of Ephraim:

On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief of the children of Manasseh:

On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of the children of Benjamin:

On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief of the children of Dan:

On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the children of Asher:

On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the children of Naphtali:

Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.

And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together: