Exodus 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 the land.
KJV
Venite, sapienter opprimamus eum, ne forte multiplicetur : et si ingruerit contra nos bellum, addatur inimicis nostris, expugnatisque nobis egrediatur de terra.
Vulgate
δεῦτε οὖν κατασοφισώμεθα αὐτούς, μή ποτε πληθυνθῇ, καὶ ἡνίκα ἂν συμβῇ ἡμῖν πόλεμος προστεθήσονται καὶ οὗτοι πρὸς τοὺς ὑπεναντίους, καὶ ἐκπολεμήσαντες ἡμᾶς ἐξελεύσονται ἐκ τῆς ⸂⸆⸃ γῆς.
LXX
come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.
ASV
הָ֥בָ/ה נִֽתְחַכְּמָ֖ה ל֑/וֹ פֶּן יִרְבֶּ֗ה וְ/הָיָ֞ה כִּֽי תִקְרֶ֤אנָה מִלְחָמָה֙ וְ/נוֹסַ֤ף גַּם הוּא֙ עַל שֹׂ֣נְאֵ֔י/נוּ וְ/נִלְחַם בָּ֖/נוּ וְ/עָלָ֥ה מִן הָ/אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 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.
- Luke 16:8 — And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
- Matt 2:7 — Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
- Prov 1:11 — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
- Ps 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Ps 33:10 — The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
- Ps 83:3 — They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
- Ps 83:4 — They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
- Ps 105:25 — He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.