Exodus 1:16

Good News Translation

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth,” he said to them, “kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live.”

Cross References

Psalm 105:25

He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.

Exodus 1:15

Then the king of Egypt spoke to Shiphrah and Puah, the two midwives who helped the Hebrew women.

Exodus 1:22

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: “Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live.”

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and we will get his property!’

Acts 7:19

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.

Hebrews 11:23

It was faith that made the parents of Moses hide him for three months after he was born. They saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king's order.

Revelation 12:4

With his tail he dragged a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman, in order to eat her child as soon as it was born.