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

²¹ And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And because the midwives revered and feared God, He made them households [of their own].

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.

Common English Bible

²¹ And because the midwives respected God, God gave them households of their own.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And because the midwives feared God, he built houses for them.

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 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.

Psalm 37:3

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

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,

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Proverbs 24:3

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

Psalm 127:3

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

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.

Psalm 112:1

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