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'My child, avoid all loose conduct. Choose a wife of your father's stock. Do not take a foreign wife outside your father's tribe, because we are the children of the prophets. Remember Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our ancestors from the beginning. All of them took wives from their own kindred, and they were blessed in their children, and their race will inherit the earth. (Tobit 4, 12)
They once came to live in Mesopotamia, because they did not want to follow the gods of their ancestors who lived in Chaldaea. (Judith 5, 7)
They abandoned the way of their ancestors to worship the God of heaven, the God they learnt to acknowledge. Banished from the presence of their own gods, they fled to Mesopotamia where they lived for a long time. (Judith 5, 8)
By heaven and earth and by our God, the Lord of our fathers, who is punishing us for our sins and the sins of our ancestors, we implore you to take this course now, today.' (Judith 7, 28)
He was supervising the men as they bound up the sheaves in the field when he caught sunstroke and had to take to his bed. He died in Bethulia, his home town, and was buried with his ancestors in the field that lies between Dothan and Balamon. (Judith 8, 3)
which was the reason why our ancestors were delivered over to sword and sack, and perished in misery at the hands of our enemies. (Judith 8, 19)
'All this being so, let us rather give thanks to the Lord our God who, as he tested our ancestors, is now testing us. (Judith 8, 25)
May the God of our ancestors keep you in his favour! May he crown your designs with success to the glory of the children of Israel, to the greater glory of Jerusalem! (Judith 10, 8)
Question the generation that has passed, meditate on the experience of its ancestors- (Job 8, 8)
and the tradition of the sages who have remained faithful to their ancestors, (Job 15, 18)
in you our ancestors put their trust, they trusted and you set them free. (Psalms 22, 4)
Yahweh, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for help, do not remain deaf to my weeping. For I am a stranger in your house, a nomad like all my ancestors. (Psalms 39, 12)
