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Exodus 1:18 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? "
Exodus 1:18
Verse in Context
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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.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
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
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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Exodus 1:1
"Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob."
Exodus 1:2
"Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,"
Exodus 1:3
"Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,"
Exodus 1:4
"Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher."
Exodus 1:5
"And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt"
Exodus 1:6
"And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation."
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