The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!

“They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. ¹  I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Then ¹  he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son ²  or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress ¹  on the earth and wrath against this people.

“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against ¹  your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ² 

and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ¹  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ² 

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. ¹  Scripture ²  does not say, “and to the descendants,” ³  referring to many, but “and to your descendant,” ⁴  referring to one, who is Christ.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, ¹  because the devil has been sinning ²  from the beginning. For this purpose ³  the Son of God was revealed: to destroy ⁴  the works of the devil.

By this ¹  the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian ²  – is not of God.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, whom Abram named Ishmael. ¹ 

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Then God took note of ¹  Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. ² 

She became pregnant ¹  and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.” ² 

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord ¹  killed him too.

“Every firstborn of the womb ¹  belongs to me, even every firstborn ²  of your cattle that is a male, ³  whether ox or sheep.

Now therefore kill every boy, ¹  and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man. ² 

The son ¹  of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.

He has neither children nor descendants ¹  among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed. ² 

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who ¹  had no one to assist him;

You defend ¹  the fatherless and oppressed, ²  so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them. ³