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Exodus 1:16

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 16 and he told them: “When you help the Hebrew women to give birth+ and you see them on the stool for childbirth,* you must put the child to death if it is a son; but if it is a daughter, she must live.”

Exodus 1:16

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 16 and he told them: “When you help the Hebrew women to give birth+ and you see them on the stool for childbirth,* you must put the child to death if it is a son; but if it is a daughter, she must live.”

Exodus 1:16

The Bible in Living English
- 16 * “When you are attending the Hebrew women, see while they are on the birthstool: if it is a son have it die, but if it is a daughter let it live”;

Exodus 1:16

American Standard Version
- 16 and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus 1:16

The Emphasized Bible
- 16 then he said—When ye act as midwives unto the Hebrew women, then shall ye look out for the sex,—If it is a son, then shall ye kill it, But if it is a daughter, then shall it live.

Exodus 1:16

King James Version
- 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.