Bible verses about "twins" | BBE

²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

²⁴ And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body.

²⁷ And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

² Simon Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together.

¹⁶ Then Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that we may be with him in death.

¹¹ And after three months we went to sea in a ship of Alexandria sailing under the sign of the Dioscuri, which had been at the island for the winter.

¹ The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me. ³ Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. ⁴ O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him. ⁵ Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble. ⁶ The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds. ⁷ Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies. ⁹ If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours. ¹⁰ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ¹² At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? ¹³ Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. ¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; ¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool? ¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours; ²⁰ But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said. ²¹ The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives. ²² Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water. ²³ Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. ²⁴ For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me; ²⁵ And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; ²⁶ And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. ²⁷ Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there. ²⁸ But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off. ²⁹ For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure. ³⁰ For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water. ³¹ And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

³ See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. ⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young. ⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

⁵ Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.

²² And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.

²⁴ And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body. ²⁵ And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau. ²⁶ And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

²⁷ And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body. ²⁸ And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first. ²⁹ But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez. ³⁰ And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work. ¹⁰ And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper. ¹¹ So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself? ¹² And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.