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Exodus 1:21 KJV
Exodus · chapter 1 · verse 21
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.Exodus 1:21 · King James Version
Exodus 1:21 in context
19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
21And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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Key words (Strong's)
- midwivesyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- fearedyârêʼto fearH3372 →
- madeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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The Egyptians' indignation at Israel's increase, notwithstanding the many hardships they put upon them, drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-22