Verse 18
Exodus 1:18
Young's Literal Translation
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and the king of Egypt calleth for the midwives, and saith to them, 'Wherefore have ye done this thing, and keep the lads alive?'
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְרָ֤א מֶֽלֶךְ מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ לַֽ/מְיַלְּדֹ֔ת וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לָ/הֶ֔ן מַדּ֥וּעַ עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ן הַ/דָּבָ֣ר הַ/זֶּ֑ה וַ/תְּחַיֶּ֖יןָ אֶת הַ/יְלָדִֽים
English Translation
And the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and let the children live?"
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Chapter 1 Context
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And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt with Jacob; a man and his...
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as to Joseph, he was in Eg...
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And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;
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and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, an...
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And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,
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and he saith unto his people, 'Lo, the people of the sons of Israel [is] more numerous and mighty th...
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give help! let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it hath come to pass, when war hap...
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And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth sto...
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and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of t...
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and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigour,
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and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service i...
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And the king of Egypt speaketh to the midwives, the Hebrewesses, (of whom the name of the one [is] S...
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and saith, 'When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children; if it [is] a so...
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And the midwives fear God (Elohim), and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, an...
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and the king of Egypt calleth for the midwives, and saith to them, 'Wherefore have ye done this thin...
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And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women, for th...
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And God (Elohim) doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;
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and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God (Elohim), that He maketh for them househ...
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and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, 'Every son who is born -- into the River ye d...
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