Exode 1:22

22 Alors Pharaon donna cet ordre à tout son peuple: Jetez dans le fleuve tous les fils qui naîtront, mais laissez vivre toutes les filles.

Exode 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).

Exode 1:22 In-Context

20 Et Dieu fit du bien aux sages-femmes; et le peuple se multiplia et devint très nombreux.

21 Et parce que les sages-femmes craignirent Dieu, il fit prospérer leurs maisons.

22 Alors Pharaon donna cet ordre à tout son peuple: Jetez dans le fleuve tous les fils qui naîtront, mais laissez vivre toutes les filles.