21 Because the midwives [a](A)feared God, He [b](B)established [c]households for them. 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “(C)Every son who is born [d]you are to cast into (D)the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:21 Or revered
  2. Exodus 1:21 Lit made
  3. Exodus 1:21 Or families
  4. Exodus 1:22 Some versions insert to the Hebrews