Exodus 1:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
  • Rev 12:4 : 4 Now the dragon’s tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:17-22
    6 verses
    86%

    17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

    18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

    19The midwives said to Pharaoh,“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women– for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”

    20So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

    21And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

  • Exod 1:15
    84%

    15The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

    18But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.

  • Exod 2:5-9
    5 verses
    74%

    5Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

    6opened it, and saw the child– a boy, crying!– and she felt compassion for him and said,“This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

    7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?”

    8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.

    9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

  • Exod 2:2
    74%

    2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

  • 1 Kgs 3:25-27
    3 verses
    74%

    25The king then said,“Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

    26The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

    27The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live?

  • Exod 13:15
    72%

    15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

  • Acts 7:21
    71%

    21and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

  • Exod 4:23
    71%

    23and I said to you,‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”

  • Acts 7:19
    71%

    19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

    7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

  • Exod 11:5
    71%

    5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

    16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

  • Jer 16:3
    70%

    3For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-21
    3 verses
    70%

    19This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

    20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

    21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    70%

    16Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

  • Num 25:16
    69%

    16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    69%

    20As she was dying, the women who were there with her said,“Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention.

  • Lev 12:1
    69%

    1Purification of a Woman after Childbirth The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 12:29
    69%

    29The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.