ג (Gimel) Even the jackals ¹  nurse their young at their breast, ²  but my people ³  are cruel, like ostriches ⁴  in the desert.

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

At ¹  the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel ²  before he was conceived in the womb.

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

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ² 

Afterward his brother came out – the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand – and he was named Zerah. ¹ 

a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

This woman’s child suffocated ¹  during the night when she rolled ²  on top of him.

The king then said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

“Who shut up ¹  the sea with doors when it burst forth, ²  coming out of the womb,

They will come and tell about his saving deeds; ¹  they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished. ² 

The Lord ¹  made his people very fruitful, and made them ²  more numerous than their ³  enemies.

Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people. ¹ 

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

Mary ¹  said to the angel, “How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with ²  a man?”

What is born of the flesh is flesh, ¹  and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed ¹  as he said to himself, ²  “Can ³  a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? ⁴  Can Sarah ⁵  bear a child at the age of ninety?” ⁶