Picking out names for children can be fun. Maybe you once read names out of one of those books that tells you what each name means, or maybe you Googled the top ten names for the year; maybe you passed on a family name to your children. For some people, names mean something; for others, they just like the way a name sounds. In the book of Proverbs we meet someone who gave her children interesting names. In fact, she named both of her daughters the same thing: Give. Verse 15 says, "The leech has two daughters: Give and Give." Some older translations say the leech is crying out Give and Give, but there is nothing in the original Hebrew to indicate she is saying anything at all. The best translation seems to be that she has named each of her daughters Give. This is fictitious, of course, and she is a leech, so we know the author is just telling a humorous story. A leech (or horse leech in some older versions) is a parasite, attaching itself to a host and sucking its blood. She...
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