Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

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