<p class="poetry">Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn<n id="1" /> in the fieldp> <p class="poetry">because there is no grass.p>

So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah&#8217;s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul&#8217;s daughter Merab<n id="1" /> whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

Now Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who heated metal and shaped<n id="1" /> all kinds of tools made of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.p>

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi.<n id="1" /> He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.p>

<p class="bodytext">After these things Abraham was told, &#8220;Milcah<n id="1" /> also has borne children to your brother Nahor &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Rachel had given birth<n id="1" /> to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Send<n id="2" /> me on my way so that I can go<n id="3" /> home to my own country.<n id="4" />

and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.p>

<p class="bodytext">Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came.<n id="1" /> Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, along with Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters numbered thirty-three in all.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,<n id="1" /> bore them to him.p>

May your family<n id="1" /> become like the family of Perez<n id="2" /> &#8211; whom Tamar bore to Judah &#8211; through the descendants<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> gives you by this young woman.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Nathan went to his home. The <sc>Lordsc> struck the child that Uriah&#8217;s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.<n id="1" />

(Now his father had never corrected<n id="1" /> him<n id="2" /> by saying, &#8220;Why do you do such things?&#8221; He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom.<n id="3" />)

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons to whom Keturah, Abraham&#8217;s concubine,<n id="1" /> gave birth:p> <p class="bodytext">Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah.p> <p class="bodytext">The sons of Jokshan:p> <p class="bodytext">Sheba and Dedan.p>

<p class="bodytext">Caleb&#8217;s concubine<n id="1" /> Ephah bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth!p> <p class="poetry">Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor!p> <p class="poetry">For the children of the desolate one are more numerousp> <p class="poetry">than the children of the married woman,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will hand the people of Israel<n id="2" /> over to their enemies<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until the time when the woman in labor<n id="4" /> gives birth.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Then the rest of the king&#8217;s<n id="6" /> countrymen will returnp> <p class="poetry">to be reunited with the people of Israel.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah<n id="1" /> with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor).<n id="2" />

Then I asked her, &#8216;Whose daughter are you?&#8217; She replied, &#8216;The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

<p class="bodytext">When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she<n id="1" /> became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, &#8220;Give me children<n id="2" /> or I&#8217;ll die!&#8221;