And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the Lord; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.

The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.

That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel’s father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.

The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh–naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth–hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,

And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.

And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:

They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God.

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:

And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:

Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.

The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,

The children of Pahath–moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.

The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.

The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,

The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.