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All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.

And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And 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 only the language of each people.

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction 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.

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

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate 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." Thus Job did continually.

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

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

He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

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

His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.

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

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.

when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,

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