And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.

And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.