Bible Verses About Abandoning Infants

And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Direct Gospel scene with infants brought to Jesus

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Child-killing command in Exodus, related but not about exposure

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Related infanticide command in Exodus

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

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And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

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Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

Protective action toward baby Moses

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

Pharaoh asks why the male children were saved alive; related to infant protection.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

Compassion toward a crying baby, but indirect

None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

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By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

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And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

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Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Direct child-killing passage tied to Herod

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Moses hidden as an infant for protection

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

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Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

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But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

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Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

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And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

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Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

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And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Helpless child from the breast, related but indirect

And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

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Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Direct command to protect fatherless children

Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

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Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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