Quotes About Children

the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.

This is your Father's world. He has your back, He goes before you, He is the rock beneath you and your heavenly Father above. This is your Father's world, and He has created this wide world is as a playground for His children. So: Go pray; and go play.

And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Now Abramís wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children—

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abrahamís brother Nahor.

and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”

and Bilhah conceived and bore him a son.

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Again Leah conceived and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.

These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.