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Exodus 1:21
And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
Exodus 1:21 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Exodus 1:21 in other translations
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
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In context
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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