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Exodus 1:17-19
International Standard Version
Exodus 1:17-19
International Standard Version
17 But the midwives feared God and didn’t do what the king of Egypt told them. Instead,[a] they let the boys live.
18 When the king of Egypt called for the midwives, he asked them, “Why have you done this[b] and allowed the boys to live?”
19 “Hebrew women aren’t like Egyptian women,” the midwives replied to Pharaoh. “They’re so healthy that they give birth before the midwives arrive to help[c] them.”
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- Exodus 1:17 The Heb. lacks Instead
- Exodus 1:18 Lit. this thing
- Exodus 1:19 The Heb. lacks to help
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