Exodus 1:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
  • Dan 6:13 : 13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for those who fear you, Which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, Before the sons of men!
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} Yes, I tell you, fear him.
  • Acts 4:18-20 : 18 They called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves, 20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" Doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:18-22
    5 verses
    92%

    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 1:15-16
    2 verses
    85%

    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,

    16and 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."

  • Heb 11:23
    74%

    23By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

  • Acts 7:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    73%

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

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    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 9:20
    72%

    20Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their cattle flee into the houses.

  • 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.'

  • Num 31:15
    72%

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

  • Exod 5:21
    71%

    21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Exod 2:2
    71%

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

  • Exod 2:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Num 33:4
    70%

    4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments.

  • Exod 14:5
    70%

    5It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • Gen 42:18
    70%

    18Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

  • Exod 14:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

    31Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.

  • Acts 7:21
    70%

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

  • Exod 2:15
    69%

    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.

  • Exod 1:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

    13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

  • 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.

  • Exod 1:8
    69%

    8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.

  • Exod 5:15
    69%

    15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

  • Exod 1:10
    69%

    10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."

  • Exod 13:17
    69%

    17It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"

  • Exod 2:23
    69%

    23It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.