And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing. ¹ 

The young men perform menial labor; ¹  boys stagger from their labor. ² 

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled ¹  hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents. ² 

The Lord says, ¹  “I will make youths their officials; malicious young men ²  will rule over them.

But ¹  the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. ² 

Then the king of Egypt summoned ¹  the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?” ² 

Manoah said, “Now, when your announcement comes true, ¹  how should the child be raised and what should he do?” ² 

He went up from there to Bethel. ¹  As he was traveling up the road, some young boys ²  came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”

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

and they cast lots for my people. They traded ¹  a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink. ² 

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life. ¹ 

When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. ¹  Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees ¹  and bowed down with his face to the ground.

The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

Jesus ¹  asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

the Angel ¹  who has protected me ²  from all harm – bless these boys. May my name be named in them, ³  and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. May they grow into a multitude on the earth.”

But God heard the boy’s voice. ¹  The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, ²  Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard ³  the boy’s voice right where he is crying.

He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ¹  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ²  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ³  grew warm.

Joseph positioned them; ¹  he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father. ²