Exodus 1:22

22 Da gebot Pharao allem seinem Volk und sprach: Alle Söhne, die geboren werden, werft ins Wasser, und alle Töchter laßt leben.

Exodus 1:22 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh charged all his people
Finding he could not carry his point with the midwives, he gave a general order to all his people everywhere:

saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river;
the river Nile; not every son born in his kingdom, for this would have ruined it in time; but that was born to the Jews, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; and it is added in the Septuagint version, to the Hebrews:

and every daughter ye shall save alive;
for the reasons given (See Gill on Exodus 1:16).

Exodus 1:22 In-Context

20 Darum tat Gott den Wehmüttern Gutes. Und das Volk mehrte sich und ward sehr viel.

21 Und weil die Wehmütter Gott fürchteten, baute er ihnen Häuser.

22 Da gebot Pharao allem seinem Volk und sprach: Alle Söhne, die geboren werden, werft ins Wasser, und alle Töchter laßt leben.