<p class="poetry">but people<n id="1" /> are born<n id="2" /> to trouble,p> <p class="poetry">as surely as the sparks<n id="3" /> fly<n id="4" /> upward.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">But an empty man will become wise,p> <p class="poetry">when a wild donkey&#8217;s colt is born a human being.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">A friend<n id="1" /> loves at all times,p> <p class="poetry">and a relative<n id="2" /> is born to help in adversity.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whoever fathers a wise child<n id="2" /> will have joy in him.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed<n id="1" /> as he said to himself,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Can<n id="3" /> a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old?<n id="4" /> Can Sarah<n id="5" /> bear a child at the age of ninety?&#8221;<n id="6" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must set apart<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

They named it Dan after their ancestor, who was one of Israel&#8217;s sons.<n id="1" /> But the city&#8217;s name used to be Laish.

&#8220;When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of<n id="1" /> its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">Who has ever heard of such a thing?p> <p class="poetry">Who has ever seen this?p> <p class="poetry">Can a country<n id="1" /> be brought forth in one day?p> <p class="poetry">Can a nation be born in a single moment?p> <p class="poetry">Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!p>