[b-hebrew] midwives

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Sat Nov 5 09:25:54 EST 2005


Dear SteveM,

>  >3) v19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not
>>as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the
>>midwives come in unto them.
>>If the midwives were Hebrews, could they have gotten away with saying that
>>the Hebrew women are more lively than the Egyptian women?
>
>HH: It could have been true. God blessed the Israelites in childbirth:
>
>SteveM: How could it be true in light of verse 17?
>Ex 1:17  But the midwives ... saved the men children alive.
>It seems to me that what the midwives told Pharoah in v19 was a bald-faced
>lie. Similar to the sort that Corrie ten Boom told the Nazi's in order to
>save lives.

Hh: It did not say it was true. I said it could have been true. 
Somebody was suggesting that what the women said was unrealistic.

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard




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