OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 1:17

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But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

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The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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