TOPICAL BIBLE
Children
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Genesis 44:29Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’Genesis 44:30So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,Genesis 44:31sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.Genesis 44:32Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’Genesis 44:33Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.Genesis 44:34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”Genesis 45:9Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.Genesis 45:10You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.Genesis 45:11And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’Genesis 45:12Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.Genesis 45:13Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”Genesis 46:29Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.Genesis 47:11So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.Genesis 47:12Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.Genesis 47:30but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”Genesis 48:12Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.Genesis 50:1Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.Genesis 50:2And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,Genesis 50:3taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.Genesis 50:4When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh thatGenesis 50:5my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”Genesis 50:6Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”Genesis 50:7Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—Genesis 50:8along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.Genesis 50:9Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.Genesis 50:10When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.Genesis 50:11When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.Genesis 50:12So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them.Genesis 50:13They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.Exodus 1:22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”Exodus 2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”Exodus 2:8“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.Exodus 2:9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.Exodus 12:29Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.Exodus 13:8And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’Exodus 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.Exodus 13:10Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.Exodus 13:15And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’Exodus 13:16So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”Exodus 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.Exodus 18:7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,Exodus 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.Exodus 21:7And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.Exodus 21:8If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.Exodus 21:9And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.Exodus 21:10If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.Exodus 21:11If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.Exodus 21:15Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.Exodus 21:17Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.Exodus 22:22You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.Exodus 22:23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.Exodus 22:24My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.Leviticus 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.Leviticus 20:5then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.Leviticus 20:9If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.