and he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birthstools, if it is a son, you will kill him; and if it is a daughter, it shall live.
And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery.
And they said to them, May Jehovah look on you and judge, you who have made our odor to stink in Pharaoh’s eyes and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hands to kill us.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, your going after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
And they pulled up stakes from the mount of Jehovah three days’ journey. And the ark of the covenant of Jehovah pulled out before them, three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
who went before you in the way to seek out a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to show you the way in which you should go, and in a cloud by the day.
For Jehovah your God has blessed you with all the work of your hands; He has known your walking through this great wilderness. Jehovah your God has been with you these forty years; you have not lacked a thing.
who made you eat manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know; that He might humble you and that He might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;