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All these had married foreign women, and they sent them away with their children.

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others."

They offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. The joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.

and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke the language of various peoples.

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces, giving orders to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

By these letters the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods

And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." This is what Job always did.

Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.

Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

Those who denounce friends for reward— the eyes of their children will fail.

Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.

Their children will seek the favor of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.

Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.

If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and their offspring have not enough to eat.

when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;

Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations.