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Exodus 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.

KJV

Præcepit ergo Pharao omni populo suo, dicens : Quidquid masculini sexus natum fuerit, in flumen projicite : quidquid feminini, reservate.

Vulgate

Συνέταξεν δὲ Φαραὼ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ λέγων Πᾶν ἄρσεν ὃ ἐὰν τεχθῇ τοῖς Ἐβραίοις εἰς τὸν ποταμὸν ῥίψατε, καὶ πᾶν θῆλυ, ζωογονεῖτε αὐτό.

LXX

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.

ASV

וַ/יְצַ֣ו פַּרְעֹ֔ה לְ/כָל עַמּ֖/וֹ לֵ/אמֹ֑ר כָּל הַ/בֵּ֣ן הַ/יִּלּ֗וֹד הַ/יְאֹ֨רָ/ה֙ תַּשְׁלִיכֻ֔/הוּ וְ/כָל הַ/בַּ֖ת תְּחַיּֽוּ/ן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
הוּ
hv
verb · 125×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְאֹ֔ר
y'r
noun · 64×
יִּלֹּדִ֥ים
yldym
adjective · 4×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נִי
ny
verb · 264×
פַּרְעֹ֔ה
pr'h
proper_noun · 267×
צִוָּ֥ה
tsvh
verb · 489×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Matt 2:16 · echo
    "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he h…"
    Exodus: Pharaoh orders babies killed — Herod's massacre of innocents

Typology

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Covers Jacob and Esau, Joseph's rise in Egypt, the famine, Jacob's family settling in Goshen, the enslavement of Israel, the birth and early life of Moses, the ten plagues, and the Exodus from Egypt including the crossing of the Red Sea.

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.
  • Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
  • Exod 1:16 — And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
  • Exod 1:16 — And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
  • 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.
  • Exod 3:9 — Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
  • Ezek 16:5 — None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
  • Gen 41:1 — And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
  • Heb 11:23 — By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
  • 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
  • Prov 1:16 — For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
  • Prov 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
  • Prov 14:28 — In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
  • Prov 28:15 — As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
  • Ps 105:25 — He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
  • Ps 129:1 — Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
  • Rev 16:4 — And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.