Newborn

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; — read the full passage →

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

`Thou dost not murder.

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!

Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?' — read the full passage →

for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;

Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay--to destruction; and against any man on whom <FI>is<Fi> the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.

And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked. — read the full passage →

Then doth Menahem smite Tiphsah, and all who <FI>are<Fi> in it, and its borders from Tirzah, for it opened not <FI>to him<Fi> , and he smiteth <FI>it<Fi> , all its pregnant women he hath ripped up.

And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel--their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.'

And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, `Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!' — read the full passage →

Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

and thou hast eaten the fruit of thy body, flesh of thy sons and thy daughters (whom Jehovah thy God hath given to thee), in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemies do straiten thee.

and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants--we have not left a remnant;

`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah--over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back from Israel.' — read the full passage →

And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day, — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens, Praise ye Him in high places. — read the full passage →

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him--his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called <FI>me<Fi> through His grace--

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them, — read the full passage →

And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger,

and this <FI>is<Fi> to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked <FI>are<Fi> cruel.

Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; — read the full passage →

All that doth breathe doth praise Jah! Praise ye Jah!

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

Who doth prepare for a raven his provision, When his young ones cry unto God? They wander without food.

And yet, ask, I pray thee, <FI>One of<Fi> the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee. — read the full passage →

and it cometh to pass, they are burying a man, and lo, they have seen the troop, and cast the man into the grave of Elisha, and the man goeth and cometh against the bones of Elisha, and liveth, and riseth on his feet.

And David saith unto Saul, `A shepherd hath thy servant been to his father among the sheep, and the lion hath come--and the bear--and hath taken away a sheep out of the drove,

`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

`When a bird's nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones; — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not see the ass of thy brother, or his ox, falling in the way, and hast hid thyself from them; thou dost certainly raise <FI>them<Fi> up with him.

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them-- — read the full passage →

and to thy cattle, and to the beast which <FI>is<Fi> in thy land, is all thine increase for food.

`Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard--to thine olive-yard.

when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving <FI>it<Fi> to it--thou dost certainly leave <FI>it<Fi> with him.

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges;

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

and the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --

And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who <FI>is<Fi> in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--