Exodus 1:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ 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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ “When you are helping the Hebrew women give birth and you see the baby being born, if it’s a boy, kill him. But if it’s a girl, you can let her live.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ instructing them: "When you will act as a midwife to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery has arrived: if it is male, put it to death; if it is female, retain it."

Exodus 1:16 Tagairtí Cros

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.