Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.

And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.

And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.