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King James Bible - Exodus 1:16

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:16

Cuando asistáis a las hebreas, y veáis el sexo, si fuere hijo, matadlo; y si fuere hija, entonces viva.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 1:16

Verse 16. Upon the stools] µynbah l[ al haobnayim. This is a difficult word, and occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible but in Jer. xviii. 3, where we translate it the potter's wheels. As yka signifies a stone, the obnayim has been supposed to signify a stone trough, in which they received and washed the infant as soon as born. Jarchi, in his book of Hebrew roots, gives a very different interpretation of it; he derives it from b ben, a son, or µynb banim, children; his words must not be literally translated, but this is the sense: "When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and ye see that the birth is broken forth, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him." Jonathan ben Uzziel gives us a curious reason for the command given by Pharaoh to the Egyptian women: "Pharaoh slept, and saw in his sleep a balance, and behold the whole land of Egypt stood in one scale, and a lamb in the other; and the scale in which the lamb was outweighed that in which was the land of Egypt. Immediately he sent and called all the chief magicians, and told them his dream. And Janes and Jimbres, (see 2 Tim. iii. 8.) who were chief of the magicians, opened their mouths and said to Pharaoh, 'A child is shortly to be born in the congregation of the Israelites, whose hand shall destroy the whole land of Egypt.' Therefore Pharaoh spake to the midwives, &c."

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 15-22 - The Egyptians tried to destroy Israel by the murder of their children The enmity that is in the seed of the serpent, against the Seed of the woman, makes men forget all pity. It is plain that the Hebrews were no under an uncommon blessing. And we see that the services done for God' Israel are often repaid in kind. Pharaoh gave orders to drown all the male children of the Hebrews. The enemy who, by Pharaoh, attempted to destroy the church in this its infant state, is busy to stifle the ris of serious reflections in the heart of man. Let those who would escape be afraid of sinning, and cry directly and fervently to the Lord for assistance __________________________________________________________________

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Original Hebrew

ויאמר 559 בילדכן 3205 את 853 העבריות 5680 וראיתן 7200 על 5921 האבנים 70  אם 518  בן 1121  הוא 1931  והמתן 4191  אתו 853  ואם 518  בת 1323  הוא 1931  וחיה׃ 2425