Exodus 1:15-22
1599 Geneva Bible
15 ¶ Moreover the King of Egypt commanded the midwives of the Hebrew women (of which the one’s name was [a]Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah)
16 And said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the women of the Hebrews, and see them on their [b]stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her live.
17 Notwithstanding the midwives feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commanded them, but preserved alive the men children.
18 Then the King of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done thus, and have preserved alive the men children?
19 And the midwives answered Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew [c]women are not as the women of Egypt: for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come at them.
20 God therefore prospered the midwives, and the people multiplied, and were very mighty.
21 And because the midwives feared God, therefore he [d]made them houses.
22 Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every man-child that is born, [e]cast ye into the river, but reserve every maid-child alive.
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- Exodus 1:15 These seem to have been the chief of the rest.
- Exodus 1:16 Or, seats whereupon they sat in travail.
- Exodus 1:19 Their disobedience herein was lawful, but their dissembling evil.
- Exodus 1:21 That is, God increased the families of the Israelites by their means.
- Exodus 1:22 When tyrants cannot prevail by craft, they burst forth into open rage.
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