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Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
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The Escalation of Evil
Commentators note that Pharaoh's evil escalates from a secret plot with midwives to a public command for all Egyptians to participate in genocide. John Calvin suggests this desperate rage shows a tyrant being hardened by God, while John Gill highlights the shift to involving "all his people." This serves as a stark reminder that unchecked sin and tyranny rarely remain contained; they grow bolder and more destructive.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The extreme cruelty of the measure does not involve improbability. Hatred of strangers was always a characteristic of the Egyptians (), and was lik…
19th Century
Anglican
Every son that is born. —The Septuagint adds “to the Hebrews,” but without any necessity, since the context shows that on…
16th Century
Protestant
And Pharaoh charged. If he had not been carried away by wrath and struck with blindness, he would have seen that the hand of God was again…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Pharaoh charged all his people Finding he could not carry his point with the midwives, he gave a general order t…
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…