See also Birth Control; Family, Children, Responsibilities toward; Woman

Gen. 1: 28	(Moses 2: 28; Abr. 4: 28) multiply, and replenish the earth.
Gen. 3: 16	Unto the woman he said . . . bring forth children.
Gen. 3: 20	(Moses 4: 26) Eve . . . the mother of all living.
Gen. 17: 16	she shall be a mother of nations.
Ex. 20: 12	(1 Ne. 17: 55) Honour thy father and thy mother.
Judg. 5: 7	I arose a mother in Israel.
1 Sam. 1: 20	she bare a son . . . Samuel.
1 Sam. 1: 27	For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me.
1 Sam. 2: 19	mother made him a little coat.
2 Kgs. 4: 17	woman conceived, and bare a son.
Ps. 113: 9	be a joyful mother of children.
Prov. 10: 1	foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Prov. 15: 20	foolish man despiseth his mother.
Prov. 29: 15	child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Isa. 66: 13	As one whom his mother comforteth.
Matt. 12: 49	Behold my mother and my brethren.
John 16: 21	woman when she is in travail hath sorrow.
John 19: 25	by the cross of Jesus his mother.
1 Tim. 2: 15	she shall be saved in childbearing.
1 Ne. 11: 18	mother of the Son of God.
1 Ne. 18: 19	grieved because of the afflictions of their mother.
2 Ne. 2: 23	they would have had no children.
Alma 56: 47	they had been taught by their mothers.
Alma 57: 21	words . . . their mothers had taught them.

See also 2 Chr. 22: 3; Prov. 31: 1; D&C 68: 25; Moses 5: 11.