Exodus 1:22

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Summary

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Every son

General references

Deuteronomy 26:6

Proverbs 14:28

Bible References

Every son

and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.

For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood,
But who can stand before jealousy?

It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would

expose their infants and they would not survive.

Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

General references

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

In a multitude of people is a king’s glory,
But in the dearth of people is a prince’s ruin.