Exodus 1:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing and allowed the male children to live?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ So the king of Egypt called the two midwives and said to them, “Why are you doing this? Why are you letting the baby boys live?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And summoning them, the king said, "What did you intend to do, so that you would save the boys?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?

Exodus 1:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”

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.

Exodus 1:19

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Ecclesiastes 8:4

For the word of the king is powerful, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”