Exodus 1:15
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
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.
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
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.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
- KJV
- And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
- WEB
- The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
- ASV
- And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
- DARBY
- And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah
- BLB
- And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives, the Hebrewesses, of whom the name of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the second [was] Puah.
- ÅB
- Og kongen i Egypt sa til de hebraiske jordmødre - den ene av dem hette Sifra og den andre Pua - :
- OTB
- Kongen av Egypt talte til de hebraiske jordmødrene, en av dem hette Sjifra, og den andre Pua;
- B1930
- Og kongen i Egypten sa til de hebraiske jordmødre - den ene av dem hette Sifra og den andre Pua - :