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Exodus 1:20
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
Exodus 1:20 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Exodus 1:20 in other translations
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
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In context
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
18 And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
19 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
22 Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
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