Acts 7:19
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
KJV
οὗτος κατασοφισάμενος τὸ γένος ἡμῶν ἐκάκωσεν τοὺς πατέρας τοῦ ποιεῖν τὰ βρέφη ἔκθετα αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ μὴ ζῳογονεῖσθαι.
Greek NT
Hic circumveniens genus nostrum, afflixit patres nostros ut exponerent infantes suos, ne vivificarentur.
Vulgate
The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.
ASV
This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- πατέρας — SBLGNT
- πατέρας — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- + ἡμῶν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- τὰ βρέφη ἔκθετα — SBLGNT
- τὰ βρέφη ἔκθετα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἔκθετα τὰ βρέφη — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Exod 1:9 — And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
- Exod 1:10 — Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of t
- Exod 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Exod 1:22 — 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.
- Exod 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Matt 2:13 — And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring
- Ps 105:25 — He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
- Ps 105:25 — He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.