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The Chilling Reality
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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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 1:16
18th Century
Theologian
Upon the stools - Literally, “two stones.” The word denotes a special seat, such as is represented on monuments of the 18th Dynasty, and is…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 1:16
19th Century
Bishop
Upon the stools. —Literally, upon the two stones. It has been suggested that a seat corresponding to the modern hurse…
John Gill
On Exodus 1:16
17th Century
Pastor
And he said, when you do the office of a midwife to the
Hebrew women
Deliver them of …
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 1:15–22
17th Century
Minister
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…