the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Brenton's Septuagint
Exodus 1:21
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It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
And so because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
Because the nurses feared God, he gave them families of their own.
And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.
And because the midwives feared God [with profound reverence], He established families and households for them.
And because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.
And because ye midwiues feared God, therefore he made them houses.
Now it happened that because the midwives feared God, He made households for them.
Indeed, because the midwives feared God, he made them founders of families.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, he blessed them with families.
Since the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
And it was, because the midwives feared God, He made houses for them.
And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God, he made them houses.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.
And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.
And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.
And it came to passe, because the midwiues feared God, that hee made them houses.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
And for the mydewyues dredden God, he bildide `housis to hem.
and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
Because the nurses feared God, He gave them families.
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made for them households.
And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
And because the midwives feared God he gave them families.
Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
made them: 1 Samuel 2:35, 1 Samuel 25:28, 2 Samuel 7:11-13, 2 Samuel 7:27-29, 1 Kings 2:24, 1 Kings 11:38, Psalms 37:3, Psalms 127:1, Psalms 127:3, Proverbs 24:3, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Jeremiah 35:2
Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:43 - but shalt 1 Kings 21:11 - did as Jezebel 1 Chronicles 17:10 - the Lord Ecclesiastes 8:5 - keepeth
Cross-References
and to regulate day and night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.
And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.
And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,
And all the wild beasts as many as are with thee, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with thee: and increase ye and multiply upon the earth.
And all the wild beasts and all the cattle and every bird, and every reptile creeping upon the earth after their kind, came forth out of the ark.
But do ye increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and have dominion over it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God,.... And regarded his command, and not that of the king, though they risked his displeasure, and their lives:
that he made them houses; which some understand of the Israelites making houses for them, being moved to it by the Lord, to preserve them from the insults of the Egyptians; others of Pharaoh building houses for them, in which he kept them, until the Hebrew women came to their time of delivery, who were ordered to be brought to these houses, that it might be known by others, as well as the midwives, whether they brought forth sons or daughters, neither of which is likely: but rather the sense is, that God made them houses, and hid them from Pharaoh, as Kimchi interprets it, that he might not hurt them, just as he hid Jeremiah and Baruch: though it seems best of all to understand it of his building up the families of these midwives, increasing their number, especially their substance and wealth, making them and their households prosperous in all worldly good; but because the word is in the masculine gender, some choose to interpret it either of the infants themselves, the male children the midwives preserved, and of their being built up families in Israel, or by means of whom they were built up; or of the Israelites themselves, whose houses were built up by their means: and others are of opinion that material houses or buildings are meant, built for the Israelites, that the midwives might know where to find them and their wives, when ready to lie in, who before lived up and down in fields and tents: but the sense of God's building up the families of the midwives is to be preferred, there being an enallage or change of the gender, which is not unusual; see Exodus 15:21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Made them houses - i. e. they married Hebrews and became mothers in Israel. The expression is proverbial. See the margin reference.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 1:21. He made them houses. — Dr. Shuckford thinks that there is something wrong both in the punctuation and translation of this place, and reads the passage thus, adding the 21st to the 20th verse: "And they multiplied and waxed mighty; and this happened (ויהי vayehi) because the midwives feared God; and he (Pharaoh) made (להם lahem, masc.) them (the Israelites) houses; and commanded all his people, saying, Every son that is born, c." The doctor supposes that previously to this time the Israelites had no fixed dwellings, but lived in tents, and therefore had a better opportunity of concealing their children but now Pharaoh built them houses, and obliged them to dwell in them, and caused the Egyptians to watch over them, that all the male children might be destroyed, which could not have been easily effected had the Israelites continued to live in their usual scattered manner in tents. That the houses in question were not made for the midwives, but for the Israelites in general, the Hebrew text seems pretty plainly to indicate, for the pronoun להם lahem, to them, is the masculine gender; had the midwives been meant, the feminine pronoun להן lahen would have been used. Others contend that by making them houses, not only the midwives are intended, but also that the words mark an increase of their families, and that the objection taken from the masculine pronoun is of no weight, because these pronouns are often interchanged; see 1 Kings 22:17, where להם lahem is written, and in the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 18:16, להן lahen is used. So בהם bahem, in 1 Chronicles 10:7, is written בהן bahen, 1 Samuel 31:7, and in several other places. There is no doubt that God did bless the midwives, his approbation of their conduct is strictly marked; and there can be no doubt of his prospering the Israelites, for it is particularly said that the people multiplied and waxed very mighty. But the words most probably refer to the Israelites, whose houses or families were built up by an extraordinary in crease of children, notwithstanding the cruel policy of the Egyptian king. Vain is the counsel of man when opposed to the determinations of God! All the means used for the destruction of this people became in his hand instruments of their prosperity and increase. How true is the saying, If God be for us, who can be against us?
