Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

In Context

16Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

18And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children ?

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Cross References

Genesis 42:18And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

1 Samuel 22:17And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord.

Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Psalms 31:19Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Proverbs 16:6By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Ecclesiastes 8:12But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.

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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