Exodus 1:16

Tree of Life Version

and said, “When you help the Hebrew women during childbirth, look at the sex. If it’s a son, then kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

Cross References

Psalm 105:25

He turned their hearts to hate His people, to deal shrewdly with His servants.

Exodus 1:15

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

Exodus 1:22

But Pharaoh charged all his people saying, “You are to cast every son that is born into the river, but let every daughter live.”

Matthew 21:38

“But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir! Come on, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’

Acts 7:19

Dealing with our people with cruel cunning, this king mistreated our fathers and forced them to abandon their infants so they would not survive.

Hebrews 11:23

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was an extraordinary child and they were not afraid of the king’s decree.

Revelation 12:4

His tail sweeps away a third of the stars of heaven—it hurled them to the earth. Now the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that whenever she gave birth he might devour her child.