<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons of Manasseh:p> <p class="bodytext">Asriel, who was born to Manasseh&#8217;s Aramean concubine.<n id="1" /> She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.

<p class="bodytext">Jeshua was the father of<n id="1" /> Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">asks the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">asks your God.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Cursed be the day I was born!p> <p class="poetry">May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When the time came for Rebekah to give birth,<n id="1" /> there were<n id="2" /> twins in her womb.

Bilhah became pregnant<n id="1" /> and gave Jacob a son.<n id="2" />

Soon Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah gave Jacob a son.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

<p class="poetry">You have forgotten<n id="1" /> the Rock who fathered you,p> <p class="poetry">and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.p>

By Hushim he fathered Abitub and Elpaal.p>

Seven<n id="1" /> sons and three daughters were born to him.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Were you the first man ever born?p> <p class="poetry">Were you brought forth before the hills?p>

<p class="poetry">Do you count the months they must fulfill,p> <p class="poetry">and do you know the time they give birth?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look at them shake uncontrollably,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like a woman writhing in childbirth.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">A foolish child is a grief<n id="1" /> to his father,p> <p class="poetry">and bitterness to the mother who bore him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">May your father and your mother have joy;p> <p class="poetry">may she who bore you rejoice.<n id="1" />p>

The length of time Adam lived<n id="1" /> after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had<n id="2" /> other<n id="3" /> sons and daughters.

Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had<n id="1" /> other<n id="2" /> sons and daughters.

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

Kenan lived 840 years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.