Bible Verses About Exposure Of Infants

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

Direct Gospel passage about infants brought to Jesus.

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

Moses is hidden as a baby to save his life.

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.

The baby is rescued from the river.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Key infant text used by early writers.

And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

The child is taken up and nursed, showing rescue and care.

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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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.

Mentions Moses being hidden by his parents.

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

Moses was exposed and then taken up

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.

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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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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.

Command to kill male infants in Exodus

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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When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

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Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

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

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

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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

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How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

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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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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Mentions infants in a sorrow context, not protection directly.

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

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In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

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

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As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Milk imagery is relevant to infancy but not infant exposure.