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So then, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your children." And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.

and saw the third generation of Ephraim's children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph's knees.

that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the LORD ."

Pharaoh said, "The LORD be with you-if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go, worship the LORD . Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind."

And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?'

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?"

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

"But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'

My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."

But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. Eat them in a ceremonially clean place; they have been given to you and your children as your share of the Israelites' fellowship offerings.

The thigh that was presented and the breast that was waved must be brought with the fat portions of the offerings made by fire, to be waved before the LORD as a wave offering. This will be the regular share for you and your children, as the LORD has commanded."

" 'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD .

"Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the community are to stone him.

I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.

If the people of the community close their eyes when that man gives one of his children to Molech and they fail to put him to death,

But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat any of it.