Exodus 1:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 and it hath been, if thou dost hear all that I command thee, and hast walked in My ways, and done that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as did David My servant, that I have been with thee, and have built for thee a stedfast house, as I built for David, and have given to thee Israel,
  • 1 Kgs 2:24 : 24 and now, Jehovah liveth, who hath established me, and causeth me to sit on the throne of David my father, and who hath made for me an house as He spake -- surely to-day is Adonijah put to death.'
  • 2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer; 28 And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou `art' God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness, 29 And now, begin and bless the house of Thy servant, to be unto the age before Thee, for Thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken, and by Thy blessing is the house of Thy servant blessed -- to the age.'
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah `are' sons, A reward `is' the fruit of the womb.
  • Prov 24:3 : 3 By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself.
  • 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.
  • Jer 35:2 : 2 `Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and thou hast spoken with them, and brought them into the house of Jehovah, unto one of the chambers, and caused them to drink wine.'
  • 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 `Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee `all' thy days.
  • 2 Sam 7:11-13 : 11 even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to thee from all thine enemies, and Jehovah hath declared to thee that Jehovah doth make for thee a house. 12 `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom; 13 He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell `in' the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 1:15-20
    6 verses
    87%

    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.'

    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;

  • Exod 1:22
    80%

    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 9:20
    73%

    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;

  • Gen 12:15
    70%

    15and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh, and the woman is taken `to' Pharaoh's house;

  • Heb 11:23
    69%

    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;

  • Exod 2:2
    69%

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

  • Exod 1:10-12
    3 verses
    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.'

    11And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;

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

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

    18for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Exod 1:7
    68%

    7and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

  • Acts 7:21
    68%

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

  • Exod 14:31
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 42:18
    68%

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

  • Exod 5:21
    68%

    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.'

  • Jonah 1:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9And he saith unto them, `A Hebrew I `am', and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'

    10And the men fear a great fear, and say unto him, `What `is' this thou hast done!' for the men have known that from the face of Jehovah he is fleeing, for he hath told them.

  • Exod 13:15
    68%

    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;

  • Ps 113:9
    68%

    9Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

  • Acts 7:10
    68%

    10and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Gen 39:5
    67%

    5And it cometh to pass from the time that he hath appointed him over his house, and over all that he hath, that Jehovah blesseth the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of Jehovah is on all that he hath, in the house, and in the field;

  • Job 21:9
    67%

    9Their houses `are' peace without fear, Nor `is' a rod of God upon them.

  • Ps 128:4
    67%

    4Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

  • Exod 11:3
    67%

    3And Jehovah giveth the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians; also the man Moses `is' very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.

  • Ps 105:38
    67%

    38Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them.

  • Gen 20:11
    67%

    11And 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;

  • Exod 2:24-25
    2 verses
    67%

    24and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

    25and God seeth the sons of Israel, and God knoweth.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
    67%

    28And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God `is' in his heart, to do judgment.

  • Jonah 1:16
    67%

    16and the men fear Jehovah -- a great fear, and sacrifice a sacrifice to Jehovah, and vow vows.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
    67%

    40so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
    67%

    18and they rise out of Midian, and come into Paran, and take men with them out of Paran, and come in to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he giveth to him a house, and bread hath commanded for him, and land hath given to him.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-18
    2 verses
    67%

    17and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;

    18and it cometh to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also bringeth forth, and we `are' together, there is no stranger with us in the house, save we two, in the house.

  • Exod 2:15
    67%

    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 10:6
    66%

    6and they have filled thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers nor thy father's fathers have seen, since the day of their being on the ground unto this day,' -- and he turneth and goeth out from Pharaoh.

  • Exod 12:29
    66%

    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.

  • Acts 7:19
    66%

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