“babes” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word babes appears 4 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 4 matching verses are shown below.
- Exodus 2:6 She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.
- Wisdom 18:5 And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.
- 1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:
- 1 John 2:14 I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I write unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.