Job 3:12
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12 Why did (A)the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
Isaiah 66:12
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12 For thus says the Lord:
(A)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and (B)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
and bounced upon her knees.
Genesis 30:3
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3 Then she said, “Here is my servant (A)Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth (B)on my behalf,[a] that even I may have children[b] through her.”
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- Genesis 30:3 Hebrew on my knees
- Genesis 30:3 Hebrew be built up, which sounds like the Hebrew for children
Genesis 50:23
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23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children (A)of the third generation. The (B)children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were (C)counted as Joseph's own.[a]
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- Genesis 50:23 Hebrew were born on Joseph's knees
Ezekiel 16:4-5
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4 And as for your birth, (A)on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, (B)but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, (C)on the day that you were born.
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