Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 7:19

"The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live." — Acts 7:19 (ASV)

So that they cast out their young children.—Literally, to make their children cast out so that they would not be kept alive. The latter verb is used in the LXX narrative (Exodus 1:17).