Exodus 1:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Acts 5:29 : 29 And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil.
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee. 17 Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver. 18 And lo -- not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'
  • Dan 6:13 : 13 Then they have answered, yea, they are saying before the king, that, `Daniel, who `is' of the sons of the Removed of Judah, hath not placed on thee, O king, `any' regard, nor on the interdict that thou hast signed, and three times in a day he is seeking his petition.'
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.
  • Acts 4:18-20 : 18 And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, 19 and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye; 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 If `from' delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back. 12 When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

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    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 1:15-16
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    85%

    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),

    16and 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.'

  • Heb 11:23
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    23By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18till another king rose, who had not known Joseph;

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
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    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 31:17-18
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    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 9:20
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    20He who is fearing the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh hath caused his servants and his cattle to flee unto the houses;

  • Exod 13:15
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    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;

  • Num 31:15
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    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

  • Exod 5:21
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    21and say unto them, `Jehovah look upon you, and judge, because ye have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants -- to give a sword into their hand to slay us.'

  • Exod 2:2
    71%

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

  • Exod 2:6-9
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    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.

  • Num 33:4
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    4and the Egyptians are burying those whom Jehovah hath smitten among them, every first-born, and on their gods hath Jehovah done judgments --

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And it is declared to the king of Egypt that the people hath fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants is turned against the people, and they say, `What `is' this we have done? that we have sent Israel away from our service.'

  • Gen 42:18
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    18And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

  • Exod 14:30-31
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    30and Jehovah saveth Israel in that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel seeth the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore,

    31and Israel seeth the great hand with which Jehovah hath wrought against the Egyptians, and the people fear Jehovah, and remain stedfast in Jehovah, and in Moses His servant.

  • Acts 7:21
    70%

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

  • Exod 2:15
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    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.

  • Exod 1:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel;

    13and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigour,

  • 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.

  • Exod 1:8
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    8And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

  • Exod 5:15
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    15And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry unto Pharaoh, saying, `Why dost thou thus to thy servants?

  • Exod 1:10
    69%

    10give help! let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it hath come to pass, when war happeneth, that it hath been joined, even it, unto those hating us, and hath fought against us, and hath gone out up of the land.'

  • Exod 13:17
    69%

    17And it cometh to pass in Pharaoh's sending the people away, that God hath not led them the way of the land of the Philistines, for it `is' near; for God said, `Lest the people repent in their seeing war, and have turned back towards Egypt;'

  • Exod 2:23
    69%

    23And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service;