And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”

“When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.

When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

He shall offer them before the Lord to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. “‘These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl.

but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”

Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.

Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.

They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine to drink.

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.

The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”