Exodus 1:22

Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

In Context

21And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:1After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Exodus 2:6She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

Psalms 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

Acts 7:19This same dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.

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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