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Exodus 1:16

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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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Egypt is the land where Israel’s growing population has been enslaved, and Pharaoh commands the Hebrew midwives to

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Exodus 1:16 mentions Egypt, Nile and Rameses.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Nile · René Hourdry
Rameses · Sailko

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