She said, "Here is my slave Bilhah; sleep with her, so that she can have a child for me. In this way I can become a mother through her."

He lived to see Ephraim's children and grandchildren. He also lived to receive the children of Machir son of Manasseh into the family.

The LORD says, "I will bring you lasting prosperity; the wealth of the nations will flow to you like a river that never goes dry. You will be like a child that is nursed by its mother, carried in her arms, and treated with love.

When you were born, no one cut your umbilical cord or washed you or rubbed you with salt or wrapped you in cloths.

No one took enough pity on you to do any of these things for you. When you were born, no one loved you. You were thrown out in an open field.