Exodus 1:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 1:16

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

Jonah 1:9

“I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Joshua 2:6

She had, however, brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.