The wicked turn aside from birth; ¹  liars go astray as soon as they are born. ² 

six ¹  of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth. ² 

Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value ¹  will fly away. They will not bear children – they will not enjoy pregnancy – they will not even conceive! ² 

They conceive ¹  trouble and bring forth evil; their belly ²  prepares deception.”

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first ¹  of those who live in tents and keep ²  livestock.

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth? ¹ 

In ¹  Lystra ²  sat a man who could not use his feet, ³  lame from birth, ⁴  who had never walked.

“This is what Hezekiah says: ¹  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ²  and humiliation, ³  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ⁴ 

His sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice. ¹ 

When ¹  she had weaned ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah) she conceived again and gave birth to another son.

While ¹  they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. ² 

Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. ¹ 

“This is what Hezekiah says: ¹  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ²  and humiliation, ³  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ⁴ 

“Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord. “Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God. ¹ 

and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ¹  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress ¹  because her time ²  has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being ³  has been born into the world. ⁴ 

but did not have marital relations ¹  with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named ²  Jesus.