When he entered he said to them, “Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against ¹  parents and have them put to death.

And you, child, ¹  will be called the prophet ²  of the Most High. ³  For you will go before ⁴  the Lord to prepare his ways, ⁵ 

And the child kept growing ¹  and becoming strong ²  in spirit, and he was in the wilderness ³  until the day he was revealed ⁴  to Israel.

Then ¹  a man from the crowd cried out, ²  “Teacher, I beg you to look at ³  my son – he is my only child!

In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

She ¹  was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling ²  to give birth.

Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? ¹  Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? ²  Even if mothers ³  were to forget, I could never forget you! ⁴ 

and said to them, “Whoever welcomes ¹  this child ²  in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great.” ³ 

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved ¹  the child under one of the shrubs.

Or why ¹  was ²  I not buried ³  like a stillborn infant, ⁴  like infants ⁵  who have never seen the light? ⁶ 

The fatherless child is snatched ¹  from the breast, ²  the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. ³ 

then his flesh is restored ¹  like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor. ² 

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise child ²  makes a father rejoice, ³  but a foolish child ⁴  is a grief to his mother. ⁵ 

Even a young man ¹  is known ²  by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right. ³ 

But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, ¹  and they were both very old. ² 

So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are ¹  a son, then you are also an heir through God. ² 

Nonetheless, because you have treated the Lord with such contempt ¹  in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”

When the child grew older ¹  she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. ²  She named him Moses, saying, “Because I drew him from the water.” ³ 

When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ¹  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ²  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.