'Young' in the Bible

He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with a blinding light so that they were unable to find the entrance.

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

Now the girl was very beautiful, a young woman who had not known a man intimately. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.

Then Rebekah and her female servants got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father—the kind he loves.

The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.

30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.

Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

He became infatuated with Dinah, daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.

These are the family records of Jacob.At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” he replied.But she said, “Only if you leave something with me until you send it.”

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation.

and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

You are also commanded, ‘Do this: Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives and bring your father here.

Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the kill.He crouches; he lies down like a lionor a lioness—who dares to rouse him?

Moses replied, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds because we must hold Yahweh’s festival.”

“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.“You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.

“This is what you are to do for them to consecrate them to serve Me as priests. Take a young bull and two unblemished rams,

The Lord spoke with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.

“Bring the best firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God.“You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

“If his gift to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present his offering from the turtledoves or young pigeons.

“If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the Lord a young, unblemished bull as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

then the assembly must present a young bull as a sin offering. When the sin they have committed in regard to the command becomes known, they are to bring it before the tent of meeting.

“But if he cannot afford an animal from the flock, then he may bring to the Lord two turtledoves or two young pigeons as restitution for his sin—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring two quarts of fine flour as an offering for his sin. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

He said to Aaron, “Take a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the Lord.

“When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

But if she doesn’t have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.”

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

He must then sacrifice one type of what he can afford, either the turtledoves or young pigeons,

He must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons on the eighth day, come before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.

On the eighth day she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“Aaron is to enter the most holy place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

He may make himself unclean for his young unmarried sister in his immediate family.

But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young.

You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

“They are to take a young bull and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

“If you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow, or as a fellowship offering to the Lord,

and if it was done unintentionally without the community’s awareness, the entire community is to prepare one young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.

“At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

Present a fire offering, a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. Your animals are to be unblemished.

Present a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old,

Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. All your animals are to be unblemished.

Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: 13 young bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old. They are to be unblemished.

“On the second day present 12 young bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old—all unblemished—

but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.

But your wives, young children, and livestock—I know that you have a lot of livestock—will remain in the cities I have given you

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your descendants, and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil—the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you.

“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a temporary resident living within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.

the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.

The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

They will also fine him 100 silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found,

If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,

you must take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you.

Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

Your descendants will be blessed,and your land’s produce,and the offspring of your livestock,including the young of your herdsand the newborn of your flocks.

Your descendants will be cursed,and your land’s produce,the young of your herds,and the newborn of your flocks.

a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

He watches over His nest like an eagleand hovers over His young;He spreads His wings, catches him,and lifts him up on His pinions.

Outside, the sword will take their children,and inside, there will be terror;the young man and the young woman will be killed,the infant and the gray-haired man.

He said about Dan:Dan is a young lion,leaping out of Bashan.

Your wives, young children, and livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But your fighting men must cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers and help them

They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword—every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from a half bushel of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to Him under the oak.

On that very night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old. Then tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

He had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys. They had 30 towns in Gilead, which are called Jair’s Villages to this day.

that four days each year the young women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

“Please stay here,” Manoah told Him, “and we will prepare a young goat for You.”