Quotes About Family

These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

He had seven sons and three daughters,

Jobís sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Jobís regular practice.

Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

One day, while Jobís sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brotherís house,

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brotherís house,

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

if the men of my house have not said, ëWho is there who has not had his fill?í—

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

No women as beautiful as Jobís daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

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

Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your fatherís house,

Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.