Quotes about Family

As for the descendants of Levi, the family heads up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles.

I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

He had seven sons and three daughters,

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’