Exodus 1:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom one was named Shiprah and the other Puah,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The king of Egypt spoke to two Hebrew midwives named Shiphrah and Puah:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews, (one of whom one was called Shiphrah, another Puah)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,

Exodus 1:15 Cross References

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 1:16

“When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Jonah 1:9

“I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Joshua 2:6

She had, however, brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.