Keluaran 1:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu raja Mesir memanggil bidan-bidan itu dan bertanya kepada mereka: "Mengapakah kamu berbuat demikian membiarkan hidup bayi-bayi itu?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu raja Mesir memanggil bidan-bidan itu dan bertanya kepada mereka: "Mengapakah kamu berbuat demikian membiarkan hidup bayi-bayi itu?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka oleh raja Mesir disuruh panggil bidan itu, lalu titahnya kepadanya: Mengapa maka kamu berbuat demikian, yang kamu menghidupi segala anak laki-laki?

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And the kyng of Egypt spake vnto the mydwyfes of the Hebrues women: (of which the one was named Siphrah and the other Puah) and sayde: ¹⁶ When ye do the office of a mydwyfe to the women of the Hebrues, and see in the birth tyme that it is a boy, ye shall kyl it: but if it be a daughter, it shal liue. ¹⁷ Notwithstanding, the mydwifes feared God, and dyd not as the kyng of Egypt commaunded them, but saued the men chyldren. ¹⁸ And the kyng of Egypt called for the mydwyfes, and sayde vnto them: why haue ye dealt on this maner, and haue saued the men chyldren? ¹⁹ And the mydwyfes aunswered Pharao: that ye Hebrues women are not as the women of Egypt: for they are more liuely women, and are deliuered yer the mydwyfes come at them. ²⁰ And God dealt well therefore with the mydwyfes: and the people multiplied and waxed very myghtie. ²¹ And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses. ²² And Pharao charged all his people, saying: All the men chyldren that are borne, cast into the ryuer, and saue the mayde chyldren alyue.

Bible Verse Review
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Why have: 2 Samuel 13:28, Ecclesiastes 8:4

Cross-References

Psalms 19:6
His settyng foorth is from the vtmost part of heauen, and his circuite vnto the vtmost part therof: and there is nothing hyd from his heat.

Jeremiah 31:35
Thus saith the Lorde, which gaue the sunne to be a lyght for the day, and the moone and the starres to shine in the night, whiche moueth the sea, so that the fluddes thereof waxe fierce, his name is the Lorde of hoastes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king called for the midwives,.... Perceiving, by the increase of the Israelites, that they did not obey his commands:

and said unto them, why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? not only did not kill them, but did everything for them that was necessary for their future preservation and health; see

Ezekiel 16:4.