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.

10 Come, we must deal shrewdly(A) with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”(B)

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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.

16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”(A)

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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.

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile,(A) but let every girl live.”(B)

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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.

“You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks;(A) let them go and gather their own straw.

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(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.

The Lord hardened the heart(A) of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.(B)

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