Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Actually, I'm not sure we can really consider this a criticism of the 
Egyptian 
women anyway.  They didn't say the Hebrew women were superior or that the 
Egyptian women were inferior, they merely said the Hebrew women were 
different and delivered their babies faster than Egyptian women.  That hardly 
seems like a slam to me.

On Friday 04 November 2005 18:54, Steve Miller wrote:
> >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.
>
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