When Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Y’all let the little children to come to me! Don’t y’all stop them, for the Empire of God belongs to such as these.
For the unbelieving man is sanctified through the woman, and the unbelieving woman is sanctified through the brother. Otherwise y’all’s children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Y’all are the children of the prophets and of the covenant God made with our ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the peoples of the earth will be blessed .’
But turning around and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on human things.”
When he had looked around at them in anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of YHWH, ʜɪꜱ strength, and ʜɪꜱ wondrous deeds that ʜᴇ has done.
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before YHWH, and stay there forever.”
She vowed a vow, and said, “YHWH Almighty, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to YHWH all the days of his life, and no razor will ever come on his head.”
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.