Exodus 1:19
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
KJV
Quæ responderunt : Non sunt Hebreæ sicut ægyptiæ mulieres : ipsæ enim obstetricandi habent scientiam, et priusquam veniamus ad eas, pariunt.
Vulgate
εἶπαν δὲ αἱ μαῖαι τῷ Φαραώ Οὐχ ὡς γυναῖκες Αἰγύπτου αἱ Ἐβραῖαι, τίκτουσιν γὰρ πρὶν ἢ εἰσελθεῖν πρὸς αὐτὰς τὰς μαίας, καὶ ἔτικτον.
LXX
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.
ASV
וַ/תֹּאמַ֤רְןָ הַֽ/מְיַלְּדֹת֙ אֶל פַּרְעֹ֔ה כִּ֣י לֹ֧א כַ/נָּשִׁ֛ים הַ/מִּצְרִיֹּ֖ת הָֽ/עִבְרִיֹּ֑ת כִּֽי חָי֣וֹת הֵ֔נָּה בְּ/טֶ֨רֶם תָּב֧וֹא אֲלֵ/הֶ֛ן הַ/מְיַלֶּ֖דֶת וְ/יָלָֽדוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 17:19 — And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
- 2Sam 17:19 — And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
- 2Sam 17:20 — And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and c
- Josh 2:4 — And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: