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Passage Lookup: Exodus 1:15-22
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New International Version (1984 Edition)
Exodus 1:15
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The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
Exodus 1:16
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"When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
Exodus 1:17
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The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
Exodus 1:18
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Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?"
Exodus 1:19
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The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
Exodus 1:20
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So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
Exodus 1:21
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And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
Exodus 1:22
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Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
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