Then Isaac brought Rebekah<n id="1" /> into his mother Sarah&#8217;s tent. He took her<n id="2" /> as his wife and loved her.<n id="3" /> So Isaac was comforted after his mother&#8217;s death.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother&#8217;s relatives.<n id="1" /> He said to them and to his mother&#8217;s entire extended family,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">A wise child<n id="1" /> brings joy to his father,p> <p class="poetry">but a foolish person<n id="2" /> despises<n id="3" /> his mother.p>

<p class="poetry">A rod and reproof<n id="1" /> impart<n id="2" /> wisdom,p> <p class="poetry">but a child who is unrestrained<n id="3" /> brings shame<n id="4" /> to his mother.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is a generation<n id="1" /> who curse their fathersp> <p class="poetry">and do not bless their mothers.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The words of King Lemuel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">an oracle<n id="2" /> that his mother taught him:p>

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban,<n id="1" /> and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he<n id="2" /> went over<n id="3" /> and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.<n id="4" />

He lived in the wilderness of Paran.<n id="1" /> His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.<n id="2" />p>

So his mother told him, &#8220;Any curse against you will fall on me,<n id="1" /> my son! Just obey me!<n id="2" /> Go and get them for me!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So he went and got the goats<n id="1" /> and brought them to his mother. She<n id="2" /> prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.

The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p> <p class="bodytext">You must not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Each of you must respect his mother and his father,<n id="1" /> and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its<n id="1" /> mother&#8217;s womb!&#8221;p>

He ruled for three years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.<n id="2" />

He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His grandmother<n id="2" /> was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

He said to his father, &#8220;My head! My head!&#8221; His father<n id="1" /> told a servant, &#8220;Carry him to his mother.&#8221;

So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap<n id="1" /> until noon and then died.

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab&#8217;s dynasty,<n id="1" /> for his mother gave him evil advice.<n id="2" />