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- And the midwives said to Pharaoh, ‘Because the Hebrew woman are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and they give birth before the midwife can get to them.’ So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. And it came about because the midwives feared God, that He established households for them.
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Between the listing of the sons of Jacob in the first five lines of Shemot, and the naming of Moses in chapter 2, verse 10, the only other people to merit a name at all are the midwives Shifrah and Puah. That leaves 28 lines of anonymity. So, why do the midwives have this honor?
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21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people to throw into the Nile every ⌞Hebrew⌟ boy that was born, but to let every girl live.
Oct 1, 2000 · The midwives, we are told, fear God. They fear Him as the life giver, and thus they honor the sanctity of life at the risk of their own. And these women foil the plan of the sovereign tyrant of Egypt.
The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. American Standard Version. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. Aramaic Bible in Plain English.
Jul 6, 2015 · In Exodus 1:15–16, the king of Egypt orders the Hebrew midwives to kill the sons born to Hebrew women. However, they do not obey: But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. ( Exodus 1:17, ESV)
- The consensus among Catholic and Protestant commentators is that the midwives did not sin by disobeying Pharaoh, but if they did lie to him, they s...
- Here is one Protestant view which makes sense to me, and doesn't fudge the issue. The point is that no where in Scripture are the midwives condemne...
- William Blake wrote in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": “The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beat...
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this ...
Jan 1, 2021 · They midwife did the right thing by obeying God will than accepting the advice of Pharoah. To fear God mean to follow God instructions.
