Êxodo 1:22

22 Por isso o faraó ordenou a todo o seu povo: “Lancem ao Nilo todo menino recém-nascido,^[a] mas deixem viver as meninas”.

Êxodo 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).

Êxodo 1:22 In-Context

20 Deus foi bondoso com as parteiras; e o povo ia se tornando ainda mais numeroso, cada vez mais forte.

21 Visto que as parteiras temeram a Deus, ele concedeu-lhes que tivessem suas próprias famílias.

22 Por isso o faraó ordenou a todo o seu povo: “Lancem ao Nilo todo menino recém-nascido, mas deixem viver as meninas”.

Footnotes

• [a]. O Pentateuco Samaritano, a Septuaginta e os Targuns dizem "recém-nascido hebreu."