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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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Verse 16. The time, and so forth Hebrew “and you shall see them upon the two stones.” Abenaim. Jeremias (18:3,) uses the same expression, speaking of a potter hard at work. Calmet.—A woman, from whom nothing could be feared, to be reserved for service and for pleasure. Menochius.—We must not obey princes in their unjust commands. Acts 4 and 5. Matthew 10:28. Worthington.
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