They asked him, ¹  “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man ²  must marry ³  the widow and father children ⁴  for his brother. ⁵ 

But if a male child ¹  is circumcised ²  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ³  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁴  on the Sabbath?

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn ¹  the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects ²  you.

Leah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a son for the sixth time. ¹ 

His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.

With the authority of the Lord ¹  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ² 

Hazael asked, “Why are you crying, my master?” He replied, “Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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

He preys on ¹  the barren and childless woman, ²  and does not treat the widow well.

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans ¹  –

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

A whole generation ¹  will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord. ² 

If ¹  someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling ²  in the end.

“I will pour out on the kingship ¹  of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, ²  the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn. ³ 

When he had contemplated this, an ¹  angel of the Lord ²  appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹ 

Simeon ¹  took him in his arms and blessed God, saying, ² 

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹ 

The man ¹  replied, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed ²  all these laws ³  since my youth.” ⁴ 

For ¹  a period of about forty years he put up with ²  them in the wilderness. ³