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17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus 1:17 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 15-22)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. It was strange that they did not rather pick quarrels with the grown men, against whom they might perhaps find some occasion: to be thus bloody towards the infants, whom all must ...
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