Bible Verses About 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.
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.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
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.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
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.
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.
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.
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
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.
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
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.
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.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
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