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and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."
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Commentators explain that the "birth-stool" mentioned by Pharaoh was likely a specific type of seat used in ancient Egyptian childbirth, literally called "the two stones" in Hebrew. This detail grounds the horrific command in the real-world, intimate setting of childbirth, highlighting its cruelty.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Upon the stools - Literally, “two stones.” The word denotes a special seat, such as is represented on monuments of the 18th Dynasty, and is…
19th Century
Anglican
Upon the stools. —Literally, upon the two stones. It has been suggested that a seat corresponding to the modern hurse…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said, when you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women Deliver them of …
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The Egyptians tried to destroy Israel by the murder of their children. The enmity that is in the seed of the serpent, against the Seed of the woman…
