Exodus 1:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now had Absalom commaunded his young men, saying: Marke when Amnons heart is mery with wine, and when I bid you smyte Amnon: then kil him, and feare not: haue not I bidden you? be bolde therfore, & play the men.
  • Eccl 8:4 : 4 Like as when a king geueth a charge, his commaundement is mightie: Euen so, who may say vnto him, what doest thou?

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  • Exod 1:15-17
    3 verses
    92%

    15And 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:

    16When 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.

    17Notwithstanding, the mydwifes feared God, and dyd not as the kyng of Egypt commaunded them, but saued the men chyldren.

  • Exod 1:19-22
    4 verses
    86%

    19And 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.

    20And God dealt well therefore with the mydwyfes: and the people multiplied and waxed very myghtie.

    21And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses.

    22And Pharao charged all his people, saying: All the men chyldren that are borne, cast into the ryuer, and saue the mayde chyldren alyue.

  • Num 31:15
    75%

    15And Moyses sayde vnto them: Haue ye saued all the women alyue?

  • Exod 2:6-10
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    6And when she had opened it, she sawe it was a chylde: and beholde, the babe wept. And she had compassion on it, and sayde: it is one of the Hebrues chyldren.

    7Then sayde his sister to Pharaos daughter: shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrues women, to nurse thee the chylde?

    8Pharaos daughter aunswered her: go. And the mayde ranne and called the chyldes mother.

    9To whom Pharaos daughter sayde: Take this chylde away, and nurse it for me, and I wyll rewarde thee. And the woman toke the chylde, & nursed it vp.

    10The chylde grewe, and she brought it vnto Pharaos daughter, and it was made her sonne. And she called ye name of it Moyses: because sayde she I toke hym out of the water.

  • Exod 14:5
    74%

    5And it was tolde the kyng of Egypt that the people fledde. And the heart of Pharao and of his seruauntes turned agaynst the people, and they said: Why haue we done this, that we haue let Israel go out of our seruice?

  • Acts 7:19
    73%

    19The same dealt subtilly with our kinrede, and euyll intreated our fathers, & made them caste out their young chyldren, that they shoulde not remayne alyue.

  • Exod 5:21
    73%

    21And saide vnto them: The Lorde looke vpon you & iudge you, which hath made the sauour of vs to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharao, and in the eyes of his seruauntes, and haue put a sworde in their hande to slay vs.

  • Exod 5:15
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    15The officers also of the children of Israel, came & complayned vnto Pharao, saying: Wherfore dealest thou thus with thy seruauntes?

  • Exod 13:15
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    15And when Pharao was very loth to let vs go, the Lorde slewe all the first borne in the lande of Egypt, aswell the first borne of man, as the firstlyng of beast: Therefore I sacrifice vnto the Lorde all the males that open the matrice: but all the first borne of my chyldren I redeeme.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    72%

    27Then the king aunswered and sayde: Geue her the liuing childe, and slay it not, for she is the mother therof.

  • Exod 5:4
    72%

    4Then saide the kyng of Egypt vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moyses and Aaron let the people from their workes? get you vnto your burthens.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    72%

    17Nowe therfore, slay all the men children, and kyl the women that haue lien with men fleshly.

    18But all the women children that haue not lien with men carnally, kepe alyue for your selues.

  • Exod 2:2
    71%

    2And the wyfe conceaued and bare a sonne: and when she sawe that it was a proper childe, she hyd him three monethes.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter toke hym vp, & norished hym for her owne sonne.

  • Heb 11:23
    71%

    23By fayth Moyses whe he was borne, was hyd three monethes of his father and mother, because they sawe he was a proper chylde, neither feared they the kynges commaundement.

  • Exod 12:29
    70%

    29And at mydnyght the Lorde smote the first borne in the lande of Egypt, fro the first borne of Pharao that sate on his seate, vntyl the first borne of the captiue that was in prison, and all the firste gendred of cattell.

  • 1 Kgs 3:25
    70%

    25And the king sayde: Deuide the liuing child in two, and geue the one halfe to the one, aud the other to the other.

  • Exod 2:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14He aunswered: Who made thee a man of aucthoritie and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kyll me, as thou kylledst the Egyptian? And Moyses feared and sayde: Of a suretie this thyng is knowen.

    15And Pharao heard of it, and went about to slaye Moyses. And Moyses fleyng from the face of Pharao, dwelt in the lande of Madian: and he sate downe by the welles syde.

  • Exod 4:23
    70%

    23And I sayde vnto thee, that thou let my sonne go, that he may serue me. And if thou refuse to let him go: beholde, I do slay thy sonne euen thy first borne.

  • Exod 1:8-10
    3 verses
    70%

    8But there arose vp a newe kyng in Egypt, which knewe not Ioseph:

    9And he sayde vnto his folke, Beholde, the people of the chyldren of Israel are greater and myghtier then we.

    10Come on, let vs deale wyttyly with the, lest they multiplie, & lest it come to passe, that if there be any warre, they ioyne them selues vnto our enemies, & fight agaynst vs, & so get them vp out of ye land.

  • Gen 12:18
    70%

    18And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me?

  • Exod 11:5
    70%

    5And all the first borne in all the land of Egypt shall dye, euen fro the first borne of Pharao that sytteth on his seate, vnto the first borne of the mayde seruaunt that is behynde the myll, and all the first gendred of the cattell.

  • Exod 2:19
    70%

    19And they aunswered: A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the handes of the shepheardes, and so drewe vs water, and watered the sheepe.

  • Num 33:4
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    4(For the Egyptians buryed all their first borne which the Lord had smitten among them, and vpon their gods also the Lorde dyd execution.)