Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

>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.