Exodus 1:16
Good News Translation
"When you help the Hebrew women give birth," he said to them, "kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live."

New Revised Standard Version
“When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.”

Contemporary English Version
He told them, "If a Hebrew woman gives birth to a girl, let the child live. If the baby is a boy, kill him!"

New American Bible
“When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women, look on the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

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Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

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Exodus 1:22 Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.

Matthew 21:38 But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son.

Context
Oppression by a New King
15And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua, 16Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.…
Cross References
Acts 7:19
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.

Hebrews 11:23
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict.

Exodus 1:15
And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,

Exodus 1:15
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