And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he will return to the days of his youth:

And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

As new-born babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this manner: When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the Holy Spirit.

Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

And it came to pass, that when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb: and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned by his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor the structure of the parts of conception in her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he is lord of all;

And said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith to them, Yes: have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the basilisk.

And said, Verily I say to you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

For every one that useth milk, is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old: but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and far advanced in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!