Exodus 1:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 And I will stirre me vp a faithfull Priest, that shall do according to mine heart and according to my minde: & I wil build him a sure house, & he shall walke before mine Anointed for euer.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And if thou hearken vnto all that I commande thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and doe right in my sight, to keepe my statutes and my commandements, as Dauid my seruant did, then will I be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built vnto Dauid, and wil giue Israel vnto thee.
  • 1 Kgs 2:24 : 24 Now therefore as ye Lord liueth, who hath established me, & set me on the throne of Dauid my father, who also hath made me an house, as he promised, Adoniiah shall surely die this day.
  • 2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 For thou, O Lord of hostes, God of Israel, hast reueiled vnto thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy seruant bene bold to pray this prayer vnto thee. 28 Therefore now, O Lord God, (for thou art God, and thy words be true, and thou hast tolde this goodnes vnto thy seruant) 29 Therefore nowe let it please thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may continue for euer before thee: for thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it: and let the house of thy seruant be blessed for euer, with thy blessing.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A song of degrees, or Psalme of Salomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the Lorde keepe the citie, the keeper watcheth in vaine.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde.
  • Prov 24:3 : 3 Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.
  • 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.
  • Jer 35:2 : 2 Go vnto the house of the Rechabites, and speake vnto them, and bring them into the house of the Lorde into one of the chambers, and giue them wine to drinke.
  • 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 I pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of thine handmaide: for the Lorde will make my lorde a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battels of the Lorde, and none euill hath bene found in thee in all thy life.
  • 2 Sam 7:11-13 : 11 And since the time that I set Iudges ouer my people of Israel) & I will giue thee rest from al thine enemies: also the Lorde telleth thee, that he will make thee an house. 12 And when thy daies bee fulfilled, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and I wil set vp thy seede after thee, which shall proceede out of thy body, and will stablish his kingdome. 13 He shall buyld an house for my Name, & I will stablish ye throne of his kingdome for euer.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust thou in the Lord & do good: dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed assuredly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:15-20
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    87%

    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.

    17Notwithstanding ye midwiues feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commaunded them, but preserued aliue the men children.

    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.

  • Exod 1:22
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    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 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:

  • Gen 12:15
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    15And the Princes of Pharaoh sawe her, and commended her vnto Pharaoh: so the woman was taken into Pharaohs house:

  • 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.

  • 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 1:10-12
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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.

    11Therefore did they set taskemasters ouer them, to keepe the vnder with burdens: and they built the cities Pithom and Raamses for the treasures of Pharaoh.

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

  • Gen 20:18
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    18For the Lorde had shut vp euery wombe of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abrahams wife.

  • Exod 1:7
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    7And the children of Israel brought foorth fruite and encreased in aboundance, and were multiplied, and were exceeding mightie, so that the land was full of them.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.

  • Exod 14:31
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    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.

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

  • 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.

  • Jonah 1:9-10
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    9And he answered them, I am an Ebrewe, and I feare the Lord God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry lande.

    10Then were the men exceedingly afrayde, and said vnto him, Why hast thou done this? (for the men knewe, that he fled from the presence of the Lorde, because he had tolde them)

  • 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.

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    9He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.

  • Acts 7:10
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    10And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao King of Egypt, who made him gouernour ouer Egypt, and ouer his whole house.

  • Gen 39:5
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    5And from that time that he had made him ruler ouer his house and ouer all that he had, the Lorde blessed the Egyptians house for Iosephs sake: and the blessing of the Lorde was vpon all that he had in the house, and in the fielde.

  • Job 21:9
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    9Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

  • Ps 128:4
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    4Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the Lord.

  • Exod 11:3
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    3And the Lorde gaue the people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians: also Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaohs seruantes, and in the sight of the people.)

  • Ps 105:38
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    38Egypt was glad at their departing: for the feare of them had fallen vpon them.

  • Gen 20:11
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    11Then 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.

  • Exod 2:24-25
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    24Then God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenant with Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.

    25So God looked vpon the children of Israel, and God had respect vnto them.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
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    28And all Israel heard the iudgement, which the King had iudged, and they feared the King: for they sawe that the wisedome of God was in him to doe iustice.

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    16Then the men feared the Lorde exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice vnto the Lorde, and made vowes.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
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    40That they may feare thee as long as they liue in ye lad, which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
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    18And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran, and tooke men with them out of Paran, and came to Egypt vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, which gaue him an house, and appointed him vitailes, and gaue him lande.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-18
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    67%

    17And the one woman sayd, Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe with her in the house.

    18And the third day after that I was deliuered, this woman was deliuered also: and we were in the house together: no stranger was with vs in the house, saue we twaine.

  • 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 10:6
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    6And they shall fil thine houses, and all thy seruants houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers fathers haue seene, since the time they were vpon the earth vnto this day. So he returned, and went out from Pharaoh.

  • 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.

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    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.