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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] midwives
  • Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:25:54 -0600

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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