Exodus 1:19

They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:4And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were:

2 Samuel 17:19And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the well, as it were to dry sodden barley: and so the thing was not known.

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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