Exodus · Exodus 1
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
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The verses immediately either side, within Exodus 1.
Before
16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
Exodus 1:17
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
After
18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
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