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In an age of international travel and migration, we’re familiar with people who look, sound, eat, and believe differently than we do. In order to become friends, it’s helpful to understand where they come from and how they do things differently, or the same, as we do. In the same way it is necessary to understand someone who comes from a different place than we do, how much more necessary is it...

A child’s weaning was an occasion for feasting and celebration, as Abraham did when Isaac was weaned in Gen 21:8. Baby and infant morbidity was high in the time of David, probably approaching fifty percent by the age of five, so a child surviving to the age of three deserved great celebration.
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