Exodus 1:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And because the midwives revered and feared God, He made them households [of their own].

American Standard Version (1901)

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.

Common English Bible

And because the midwives respected God, God gave them households of their own.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And because the midwives feared God, he built houses for them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

Exodus 1:21 Cross References

1 Kings 11:38

If you will listen to all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you an enduring house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of my father David and who has made me a house as he promised, today Adonijah shall be put to death.”

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord and do good; live in the land and enjoy security.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.

Proverbs 24:3

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though sinners do evil a hundred times and prolong their lives, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they stand in fear before him,

Jeremiah 35:2

Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.

1 Samuel 2:35

I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever.

1 Samuel 25:28

Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.