10 Come, let us work wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that if there be war, they join themselves also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [a][b]get them out of the land.

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  1. Exodus 1:10 Into Canaan, and so we shall lose our commodity.
  2. Exodus 1:10 Or, go up out of the land.

16 And said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the women of the Hebrews, and see them on their [a]stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her live.

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  1. Exodus 1:16 Or, seats whereupon they sat in travail.

22 Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every man-child that is born, [a]cast ye into the river, but reserve every maid-child alive.

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  1. Exodus 1:22 When tyrants cannot prevail by craft, they burst forth into open rage.

Ye shall give the people no more straw, to make brick ([a]as in time past) but let them go and gather them straw themselves.

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  1. Exodus 5:7 Hebrew, yesterday and ere yesterday.

(For the Lord had hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he followed after the children of Israel: but the children of Israel went out with an [a]high hand.)

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  1. Exodus 14:8 With great joy and boldness.

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