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All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others."

On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews-young and old, women and children-and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular practice.

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

It is said that God lays up one's punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so that he may know it.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

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

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

From the lips of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

from such men, O LORD, by Your hand, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their bellies with Your treasure and satisfy their sons; so they leave their abundance to their children.

Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.

They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.