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• Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau for I am afraid lest he come and kill us all, even the mothers and their children. (Genesis 32, 11)

• Because the midwives revered God, he made them mothers of families. (Exodus 1, 21)

• No less than I, they too were formed in the womb by the same God who formed us all within our mothers. (Job 31, 15)

• Be like a father towards orphans and like a husband towards their mothers. Then you will be like a son of the Most High and he will love you more than your own mother. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 10)

• Kings will be your foster fathers, their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh and that those who hope in me will not be put to shame. (Isaiah 49, 23)

• Their widows are more numerous than the sand of the seas. On the mothers of young men I have brought a destroyer who ravages in broad daylight. Suddenly terror and fear grips them. (Jeremiah 15, 8)

• for this is what Yahweh says about sons and daughters born here, and about fathers and mothers who bring them to light in this country: (Jeremiah 16, 3)

• No funeral meal shall be shared to comfort the bereaved or console them on the death of their fathers and mothers. (Jeremiah 16, 7)

• Look, I will bring them back from the land of the north, gather them from the ends of the earth, the lame and the blind, mothers and women in labor - a great throng will return. (Jeremiah 31, 8)

• To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like wounded men in the streets and public squares, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms. (Lamentations 2, 12)

• Once loving mothers, our women have cooked their own children and made them their food: such has been the crash of my people! (Lamentations 4, 10)

• We are as orphans, fatherless, and early widowed are our mothers. (Lamentations 5, 3)