Exodus 1:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and saith, `When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children; if it `is' a son -- then ye have put him to death; and if it `is' a daughter -- then she hath lived.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:22 : 22 and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'
  • Matt 21:38 : 38 and the husbandmen having seen the son, said among themselves, This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and may possess his inheritance;
  • Rev 12:4 : 4 and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:17-22
    6 verses
    86%

    17And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive;

    18and the king of Egypt calleth for the midwives, and saith to them, `Wherefore have ye done this thing, and keep the lads alive?'

    19And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, `Because the Hebrew women `are' not as the Egyptian women, for they `are' lively; before the midwife cometh in unto them -- they have borne!'

    20And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;

    21and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;

    22and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, `Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

  • Exod 1:15
    84%

    15And the king of Egypt speaketh to the midwives, the Hebrewesses, (of whom the name of the one `is' Shiphrah, and the name of the second Puah),

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

    18and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

  • Exod 2:5-9
    5 verses
    74%

    5And a daughter of Pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the River, and her damsels are walking by the side of the River, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it,

    6and openeth, and seeth him -- the lad, and lo, a child weeping! and she hath pity on him, and saith, `This is `one' of the Hebrews' children.'

    7And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, `Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;'

    8and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Go;' and the virgin goeth, and calleth the mother of the lad,

    9and the daughter of Pharaoh saith to her, `Take this lad away, and suckle him for me, and I -- I give thy hire;' and the woman taketh the lad, and suckleth him.

  • Exod 2:2
    74%

    2and the woman conceiveth, and beareth a son, and she seeth him that he `is' fair, and she hideth him three months,

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

    25and the king saith, `Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other.'

    26And the woman whose son `is' the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this `one' saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine -- cut `it'.'

    27And the king answereth and saith, `Give ye to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she `is' its mother.'

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

  • Exod 13:15
    72%

    15yea, it cometh to pass, when Pharaoh hath been pained to send us away, that Jehovah doth slay every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man even unto the first-born of beast; therefore I am sacrificing to Jehovah all opening a womb who `are' males, and every first-born of my sons I ransom;

  • Acts 7:21
    71%

    21and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son;

  • Exod 4:23
    71%

    23and I say unto thee, Send away My son, and he doth serve Me; and -- thou dost refuse to send him away -- lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born.'

  • Acts 7:19
    71%

    19this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6and thy maid-servant hath two sons; and they strive both of them in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and the one smiteth the other, and putteth him to death;

    7and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left -- so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.'

  • Exod 11:5
    71%

    5and every first-born in the land of Egypt hath died, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the maid-servant who `is' behind the millstones, and all the first-born of beasts;

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.

    16And to a priest of Midian `are' seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

  • Jer 16:3
    70%

    3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:

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

    19And the son of this woman dieth at night, because she hath lain upon it,

    20and she riseth in the middle of the night, and taketh my son from beside me -- and thy handmaid is asleep -- and layeth it in her bosom, and her dead son she hath laid in my bosom;

    21and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear.'

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    70%

    16for the king doth hearken to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man `seeking' to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God,

  • Num 25:16
    69%

    16And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    69%

    20And at the time of her death, when the women who are standing by her say, `Fear not, for a son thou hast borne,' she hath not answered, nor set her heart `to it';

  • Lev 12:1
    69%

    1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 12:29
    69%

    29And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who `is' in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.