Tell your children ¹  about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation. ² 

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity. ¹ 

I will have no pity on her children, ¹  because they are children conceived in adultery. ² 

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

May his children ¹  be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. ¹ 

After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law. ¹ 

Then you will think to yourself, ¹  ‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. ²  Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she ¹  became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children ²  or I’ll die!”

He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them. ¹ 

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. ¹  For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants. ² 

After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah ¹  also has borne children to your brother Nahor –

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children – Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels. ¹ 

The female servants came forward with their children and bowed down. ¹ 

These were the children ¹  of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ¹  –

Children of the third generation born to them ¹  may enter the assembly of the Lord.