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I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.

Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.

but Nadab and Abihu were killed when they offered unholy fire to the Lord in the Sinai Desert. They had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during Aaron's lifetime.

But if she is innocent, she will not be harmed and will be able to bear children.

Why is the Lord taking us into that land? We will be killed in battle, and our wives and children will be captured. Wouldn't it be better to go back to Egypt?"

‘I, the Lord , am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.'

You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.

Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.

So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrance of their tents, with their wives and children.

Children shall be bought back at the age of one month for the fixed price of five pieces of silver, according to the official standard.

The people of Israel captured the Midianite women and children, took their cattle and their flocks, plundered all their wealth,

Our wives and children and our cattle and sheep will remain here in the towns of Gilead.

"Then the Lord said to all of us, ‘Your children, who are still too young to know right from wrong, will enter the land—the children you said would be seized by your enemies. I will give the land to them, and they will occupy it.

At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children, just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon.

Only your wives, children, and livestock—I know you have a lot of livestock—will remain behind in the towns that I have assigned to you.

Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

about the day you stood in the presence of the Lord your God at Mount Sinai, when he said to me, ‘Assemble the people. I want them to hear what I have to say, so that they will learn to obey me as long as they live and so that they will teach their children to do the same.'

"Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.

"Even when you have been in the land a long time and have children and grandchildren, do not sin by making for yourselves an idol in any form at all. This is evil in the Lord 's sight, and it will make him angry.