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Of thy own children beware, be on thy watch against thy own household; (Ecclesiasticus 32, 26)
it is for thy children to ask thee for what they need, not to have thyself for their pensioner. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 22)
Children born, and a city founded, will bring thee a great name; best of all, a woman without spot. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 19)
The children wicked men beget are born under a curse, familiars of a godless home; (Ecclesiasticus 41, 8)
the exchange between buyer and seller, the strict punishing of children, the cudgelling of a wicked slave till he bleeds … (Ecclesiasticus 42, 5)
Not like those others, who are forgotten in death as if they had never been; nameless, they and their children, as if they had never lived; (Ecclesiasticus 44, 9)
his clan first of all must have bread enough and to spare, his children should inherit the eating of the Lord’s own sacrifice. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 26)
David the son of Jesse, of Juda’s tribe, should bequeath to his children a legacy of kingship …… with wise hearts endowing us, to preserve justice among his people, and keep safe the blessings he has given to it; and this pre-eminence over his people he has settled on them in perpetuity.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 45, 31)
and thus thy renown was tarnished with the gendering of a breed unhallowed. So it was that vengeance fell upon thy children, that must rue thy folly in after times; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 22)
Come you too (they will say), children of Jacob, let us walk together in the path where the Lord shews us light. (Isaiah 2, 5)
And still they are cast off, these children of Jacob, the Lord’s own people; ever since they grew rich, like the men who went before them,✻ and began to trust in divination, like the Philistines, and to ally themselves with men of alien breed. (Isaiah 2, 6)
here stand I, and these children✻ the Lord has given me, a portent, a warning sent to Israel by the Lord of hosts, who dwells on mount Sion. (Isaiah 8, 18)
