Exodus 1:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.

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  • 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24 : 24 Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.
  • 2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you. 28 And now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are true and you have said you will give your servant this good thing; 29 So may it be your pleasure to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you: (for you, O Lord God, have said it,) and may your blessing be on your servant's family line for ever!
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
  • Prov 24:3 : 3 The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
  • Jer 35:2 : 2 Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.
  • 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
  • 2 Sam 7:11-13 : 11 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings. 12 And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong. 13 He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:15-20
    6 verses
    87%

    15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),

    16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

    17 But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.

    18 And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?

    19 And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

    20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.

  • Exod 1:22
    80%

    22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

  • Exod 9:20
    73%

    20 Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house:

  • Gen 12:15
    70%

    15 And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

  • Heb 11:23
    69%

    23 By faith Moses was kept secretly by his father and mother for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a fair child; and they had no fear of the king's orders.

  • Exod 2:2
    69%

    2 And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.

  • Exod 1:10-12
    3 verses
    69%

    10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

    11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

    12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

    18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Exod 1:7
    68%

    7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

  • Acts 7:21
    68%

    21 And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.

  • Exod 14:31
    68%

    31 And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

  • Gen 42:18
    68%

    18 And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

  • Exod 5:21
    68%

    21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

  • Jonah 1:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.

    10 And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them.

  • Exod 13:15
    68%

    15 And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

  • Ps 113:9
    68%

    9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

  • Acts 7:10
    68%

    10 And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.

  • Gen 39:5
    67%

    5 And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

  • Job 21:9
    67%

    9 Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.

  • Ps 128:4
    67%

    4 See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.

  • Exod 11:3
    67%

    3 And the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians. For the man Moses was highly honoured in the land of Egypt, by Pharaoh's servants and the people.

  • Ps 105:38
    67%

    38 Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.

  • Gen 20:11
    67%

    11 And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

  • Exod 2:24-25
    2 verses
    67%

    24 And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

    25 And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the knowledge of himself.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
    67%

    28 And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

  • Jonah 1:16
    67%

    16 Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    67%

    40 So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
    67%

    18 And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

    18 And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.

  • Exod 2:15
    67%

    15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

  • Exod 10:6
    66%

    6 And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.

  • Exod 12:29
    66%

    29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.

  • Acts 7:19
    66%

    19 He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.