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Exodus 1:16-18
New Living Translation
Exodus 1:16-18
New Living Translation
16 “When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver.[a] If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.
18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?”
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- 1:16 Hebrew look upon the two stones; perhaps the reference is to a birthstool.
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