<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

The <sc>Lordsc> answered Elijah&#8217;s prayer; the boy&#8217;s breath returned to him and he lived.

<p class="bodytext">The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Who prepares prey for the raven,p> <p class="poetry">when its young cry out to Godp> <p class="poetry">and wander about<n id="1" /> for lack of food?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish kingp> <p class="poetry">who no longer knows how to receive advice.p>

<p class="poetry">A cow and a bear will graze together,p> <p class="poetry">their young will lie down together.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.p>

<p class="poetry">you who practice ritual sex<n id="1" /> under the oaks and every green tree,p> <p class="poetry">who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1497; (<i>Yodi>)p> <p class="poetry">The hands of tenderhearted women<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">cooked their own children,p> <p class="poetry">who became their food,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when my people<n id="3" /> were destroyed.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">and they cast lots for my people.p> <p class="poetry">They traded<n id="1" /> a boy for a prostitute;p> <p class="poetry">they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.<n id="2" />p>

When Esau<n id="1" /> looked up<n id="2" /> and saw the women and the children, he asked, &#8220;Who are these people with you?&#8221; Jacob<n id="3" /> replied, &#8220;The children whom God has graciously given<n id="4" /> your servant.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">His servants said to him, &#8220;What is this that you have done? While<n id="1" /> the child was still alive, you fasted and wept. Once the child was dead you got up and ate food!&#8221;

He got up on the bed and spread his body out over<n id="1" /> the boy; he put his mouth on the boy&#8217;s<n id="2" /> mouth, his eyes over the boy&#8217;s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy&#8217;s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy&#8217;s skin<n id="3" /> grew warm.

<p class="bodytext">Lamech said to his wives,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Adah and Zillah! Listen to me!p> <p class="poetry">You wives of Lamech, hear my words!p> <p class="poetry">I have killed a man for wounding me,p> <p class="poetry">a young man<n id="1" /> for hurting me.p>

Let me take my wives and my children whom I have acquired by working for you.<n id="1" /> Then I&#8217;ll depart,<n id="2" /> because you know how hard I&#8217;ve worked for you.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But Jacob<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;My lord knows that the children are young,<n id="2" /> and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young.<n id="3" /> If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

Reuben said to them, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t sin against the boy,&#8217; but you wouldn&#8217;t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!&#8221;<n id="1" />

We said to my lord, &#8216;We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old.<n id="1" /> The boy&#8217;s<n id="2" /> brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother&#8217;s sons left,<n id="3" /> and his father loves him.&#8217;p>

But<n id="1" /> the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the king of Egypt summoned<n id="1" /> the midwives and said to them, &#8220;Why have you done this and let the boys live?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then his sister said to Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter, &#8220;Shall I go and get<n id="1" /> a nursing woman<n id="2" /> for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse<n id="3" /> the child for you?&#8221;