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Give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know my service with which I have served you.

And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two slave-girls, and his eleven children. And he passed over the ford Jabbok.

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And, behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two slave-girls.

And he put the slave-girls and their children first; and Leah and her children behind: and Rachel and Joseph last.

And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children. And he said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children with whom God has favored your servant.

And the slave-girls came near, they and their children; and they bowed.

And Leah and her children also came near and bowed. And afterward Rachel and Joseph came near and bowed.

And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are suckling. And if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

And the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt said to them. And they kept the male children alive.

And the king of Egypt called to the midwives and said to them, Why do you do this thing and keep alive the male children?

And she opened it and saw the child, and, behold, a boy crying! And she had pity on him and said, This one is of the children of the Hebrews.

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears sons or daughters to him, the wife and her children shall belong to her master; and he shall go out with his body.

And if the slave truly says, I love my master, my wife and my children; I do not desire to go out free,

But the people that live in the land are fierce, and the cities are walled up, very great. And also we have seen the children of Anak there.

And you shall keep alive for yourselves all the female children who have not known a man by lying with a male.

then Jehovah will make your plagues remarkable, and the plagues of your children shall be great and persistent plagues with evil and long lasting sicknesses.

that this shall be a sign among you, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What are these stones to you?

And Heber the Kenite had broken away from the Kenites, he being of the children of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses. And he pitched his tent by the oak in Zaanaim, near Kedesh.

And they also died, both of them, Mahlon and Chilion. And the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

And he had two wives, the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the second, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.