If you stop listening to ¹  instruction, my child, you will stray ²  from the words of knowledge.

My child, ¹  if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;

Listen, my child, ¹  and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

Fear the Lord, my child, ¹  as well as the king, and do not associate ²  with rebels, ³ 

Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; ¹  he will bring you ²  happiness. ³ 

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child ¹  and nurse him for me, and I will pay your ²  wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he ¹  realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” They replied, “Yes, he’s dead.”

His servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? While ¹  the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!”

Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ¹  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

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

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

He named the second child Ephraim, ¹  saying, ²  “Certainly ³  God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, ¹  the Lord your God disciplines you.

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

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

The king responded, “Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

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

Listen, ¹  my child, ²  to the instruction ³  from ⁴  your father, and do not forsake the teaching ⁵  from ⁶  your mother.

Listen, my child, ¹  and accept my words, so that ²  the years of your life will be many. ³ 

My child, ²  if you have made a pledge ³  for your neighbor, and ⁴  have become a guarantor ⁵  for a stranger, ⁶