Exodus 1:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Notwithstanding ye midwiues feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commaunded them, but preserued aliue the men children.

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  • Acts 5:29 : 29 Then Peter and the Apostles answered, & sayd, We ought rather to obey God then men.
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 By mercy and trueth iniquitie shalbe forgiuen, and by the feare of the Lorde they depart from euill.
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the King, O Nebuchad-nezzar, we are not carefull to answere thee in this matter. 17 Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hote fierie fornace, and hee will deliuer vs out of thine hand, O King. 18 But if not, bee it knowen to thee, O King, that wee will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou hast set vp.
  • Dan 6:13 : 13 Then answered they, and sayd vnto the King, This Daniel which is of the children of the captiuitie of Iudah, regardeth not thee, O King, nor the decree, that thou hast sealed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 And because ye midwiues feared God, therefore he made them houses.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 For the former gouernours that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides fourtie shekels of siluer: yea, and their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 Howe great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layde vp for them, that feare thee! and done to them, that trust in thee, euen before the sonnes of men!
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner doe euill an hundreth times, and God prolongeth his dayes, yet I knowe that it shalbe well with them that feare the Lord, and doe reuerence before him.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 Let vs heare the end of all: feare God and keepe his commandements: for this is the whole duetie of man.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 And feare yee not them which kill the bodie, but are nor able to kill the soule: but rather feare him, which is able to destroy both soule and bodie in hell.
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 But I wil forewarne you, who ye shal feare: feare him which after hee hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say vnto you, him feare.
  • Acts 4:18-20 : 18 So they called them, and commaunded them, that in no wise they should speake or teach in the Name of Iesus. 19 But Peter and Iohn answered vnto them, and said, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to obey you rather then God, iudge ye. 20 For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in iudgement, because he willingly walked after the commandement.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, & all the maner of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee waste, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall beare the reproche of my people.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine? 12 If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it? And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 Then Abraha answered, Because I thought thus, Surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wiues sake.
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.

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  • Exod 1:18-22
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    92%

    18Then the King of Egypt called for the midwiues, and sayde vnto them, Why haue yee done thus, and haue preserued aliue the men children?

    19And the midwiues answered Pharaoh, Because the Ebrewe women are not as the women of Egypt: for they are liuely, and are deliuered yer the midwife come at them.

    20God therefore prospered the midwiues, and the people multiplied and were very mightie.

    21And because ye midwiues feared God, therefore he made them houses.

    22Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Euery man childe that is borne, cast yee into the riuer, but reserue euery maide childe aliue.

  • Exod 1:15-16
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    85%

    15Moreouer the King of Egypt commanded ye midwiues of the Ebrewe women, (of which the ones name was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah)

    16And sayde, When ye doe the office of a midwife to the women of the Ebrewes, and see them on their stooles, if it be a sonne, then yee shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her liue.

  • Heb 11:23
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    23By faith Moses when he was borne, was hid three moneths of his parents, because they sawe he was a proper childe, neither feared they the kings commandement.

  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18Till another King arose, which knewe not Ioseph.

    19The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and euill entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their yong children, that they should not remaine aliue.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
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    27Then the King answered, and sayde, Giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: this is his mother.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    17Now therefore, slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that haue knowen man by carnall copulation.

    18But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation, keepe aliue for your selues.

  • Exod 9:20
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    20Such then as feared the word of the Lorde among the seruants of Pharaoh, made his seruants and his cattell flee into the houses:

  • Exod 13:15
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    15For when Pharaoh was harde hearted against our departing, the Lord then slewe all the first borne in the lande of Egypt: from the first borne of man euen to the first borne of beast: therefore I sacrifice vnto the Lorde all the males that first open the wombe, but all the first borne of my sonnes I redeeme.

  • Num 31:15
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    15And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?

  • Exod 5:21
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    21To whom they said, The Lord looke vpon you and iudge: for yee haue made our sauour to stinke before Pharaoh and before his seruants, in that ye haue put a sword in their hand to slay vs.

  • Exod 2:2
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    2And the woman coceiued and bare a sonne: and when she saw that he was faire, she hid him three moneths.

  • Exod 2:6-9
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    6Then she opened it, and sawe it was a childe: and beholde, the babe wept: so she had compassion on it, and sayde, This is one of the Ebrewes children.

    7Then said his sister vnto Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and cal vnto thee a nurce of the Ebrew women to nurce thee the childe?

    8And Pharaohs daughter sayde to her, Goe. So the maide went and called the childes mother,

    9To whome Pharaohs daughter sayde, Take this childe away, and nurce it for me, and I wil reward thee. Then the woman tooke the childe and nurced him.

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

  • Exod 14:5
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    5Then it was told the King of Egypt, that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his seruants was turned against the people, and they sayde, Why haue we this done, and haue let Israel go out of our seruice?

  • Gen 42:18
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    18Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.

  • Exod 14:30-31
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    30Thus the Lorde saued Israel the same day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel sawe the Egyptians dead vpon the Sea banke.

    31And Israel saw the mightie power, which the Lord shewed vpon the Egyptians: so the people feared the Lord, and beleeued the Lorde, and his seruant Moses.

  • Acts 7:21
    70%

    21And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.

  • Exod 2:15
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    15Now Pharaoh heard this matter, & sought to slay Moses: therefore Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in the lande of Midian, and hee sate downe by a well.

  • Exod 1:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grewe: therefore they were more grieued against the children of Israel.

    13Wherefore the Egyptians by crueltie caused the children of Israel to serue.

  • Exod 12:29
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    29Nowe at midnight, the Lorde smote all the first borne in the lande of Egypt, from the first borne of Pharaoh that sate on his throne, vnto the first borne of the captiue that was in prison, and all the first borne of beastes.

  • Exod 1:8
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    8Then there rose vp a newe King in Egypt, who knewe not Ioseph.

  • Exod 5:15
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    15Then the officers of the children of Israel came, & cryed vnto Pharaoh, saying, Wherfore dealest thou thus with thy seruants?

  • Exod 1:10
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    10Come, let vs worke wisely with them, least they multiplie, and it come to passe, that if there be warre, they ioyne them selues also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and get them out of the land.

  • Exod 13:17
    69%

    17Nowe when Pharaoh had let the people go, God caried them not by the way of the Philistims countrey, though it were neerer: (for God sayd, Lest the people repent whe they see warre, and turne againe to Egypt)

  • Exod 2:23
    69%

    23Then in processe of time, the King of Egypt dyed, and the children of Israel sighed for the bondage and cryed: and their crie for the bondage came vp vnto God.