Exodus 1:16

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Psalm 105:25

whose hearts he then turned to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

Exodus 1:15

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

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.”

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.’

Acts 7:19

He dealt craftily with our race and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die.

Hebrews 11:23

By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that the child was beautiful; and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.