Exodus 1:19

They responded: “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. For they themselves have the wisdom of a midwife, and so they give birth before we can come to them.”

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In The King James Version

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

In Context

18And summoning them, the king said, “What did you intend to do, so that you would save the boys?”

20Therefore, God acted favorably toward the midwives. And the people increased, and they were strengthened exceedingly.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:4And the woman, taking the men, hid them. And she said: “I admit that they came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

2 Samuel 17:19Then a woman took and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as if drying hulled barley. And so the matter was hidden.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:16-22

15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done… Read the whole commentary →

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