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In these letters the king said: On the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month, the Jews in every city and province will be allowed to get together and defend themselves. They may destroy any army that attacks them, and they may kill all of their enemies, including women and children. They may also take everything that belongs to their enemies. A copy of this law is to be posted in every province and read by everyone.

After each feast, Job would send for his children and perform a ceremony, as a way of asking God to forgive them of any wrongs they may have done. He would get up early the next morning and offer a sacrifice for each of them, just in case they had sinned or silently cursed God.

That servant was still speaking, when a fourth one dashed up and said, "Your children were having a feast and drinking wine at the home of your oldest son,

when suddenly a windstorm from the desert blew the house down, crushing all of your children. I am the only one who escaped to tell you."

Don't let children be created or joyful shouts be heard ever again in that night.

they starve, and their children are scattered.

and leaving their children helpless in court.

He made your children pay for their sins.

We never live to know if our children are praised or disgraced.

They have condemned me, just to benefit themselves; now blind their children.

without any children to carry on their name.

Young children can't stand me, and when I come near, they make fun.

Their children will have to repay what the parents took from the poor.

Why are they allowed to see their children grow up?

their children play and dance safely by themselves.

You say, "God will punish those sinners' children in place of those sinners." But I say, "Let him punish those sinners themselves until they really feel it.

Because after they are dead, they won't care what happens to their children."

in the desert, where they and their children must live like wild donkeys and search for food.

Children whose fathers have died are taken from their mothers as payment for a debt.

They may have many children, but most of them will go hungry or suffer a violent death.