Exodus 1:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded, but let the male babies live.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Now the two midwives respected God so they didn’t obey the Egyptian king’s order. Instead, they let the baby boys live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe.

Exodus 1:17 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 20:11

Avraham said, *Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

Genesis 42:18

Yosef said to them the third day, *Do this, and live, for I fear God.

2 Samuel 24:4

Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Yo'av, and against the captains of the army. Yo'av and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Yisra'el.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

Esther 3:3

Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordekhai, *Why do you disobey the king's mitzvah?*

Psalm 31:19

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Exodus 1:18

The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, *Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?*

Exodus 1:21

It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his mitzvot; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 8:12

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Daniel 6:13

Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniyel, who is of the children of the captivity of Yehudah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.

Hosea 5:11

Efrayim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

Micah 6:16

For the statutes of `Omri 1 are kept, and all the works of the house of Ach'av. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.*

Matthew 10:28

Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehinnom.

Luke 12:5

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehinnom. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Acts 5:29

But Kefa and the emissaries answered, *We must obey God rather than men.

1 Samuel 22:17

The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the Kohanim of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the Kohanim of the LORD.