Exodus 1:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

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  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
  • Rev 12:4 : 4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:17-22
    6 verses
    86%

    17But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

    18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"

    19The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

    20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

    21It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

    22Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

  • Exod 1:15
    84%

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

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

    18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Exod 2:5-9
    5 verses
    74%

    5Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

    6She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

    7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

    8Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.

    9Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.

  • Exod 2:2
    74%

    2The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

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

    25The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

    26Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.

    27Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?

  • Exod 13:15
    72%

    15and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

  • Acts 7:21
    71%

    21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

  • Exod 4:23
    71%

    23and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

  • Acts 7:19
    71%

    19The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

  • Exod 11:5
    71%

    5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the maid-servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

    16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

  • Jer 16:3
    70%

    3For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:

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

    19This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

    20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

    21When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    70%

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • Num 25:16
    69%

    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    69%

    20About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.

  • Lev 12:1
    69%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 12:29
    69%

    29It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck 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 dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.