Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.
Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
“They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”
And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.”
Of all my sons—and the Lord has given me many—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down.