Exodus 1:16
Douay-Rheims
Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
George Leo Haydock
The time, &c. Hebrew, “and you shall see them upon the two stones.” Abenaim. Jeremias (xviii. 3,) uses the same expression, speaking of a potter hard at work. (Calmet) — A woman, from whom nothing could be feared, to be reserved for service and for pleasure. (Menochius) — We must not obey princes in their unjust commands. (Acts iv, and Matthew x. 28.) (Worthington)
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1849 · Exodus 1:16
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.