Bible Verses About Child's Weaning
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And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
Scripture Passages
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh: and the child was young.
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
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