Greeting
We begin in Ex 1:8-12 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land."
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.
Ex 1:15-17 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah:
“When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.”
But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live too.
Ex 11:4-5 Thus says the Lord: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt; and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the animals.
Ex 1:19-21And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them."
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.
And so it was, because the midwives feared God that He provided households for them.
I but this together about the life of a unborn child, that cannot speak, but God tell us about a woman body by any person.
We read in Ex 21:22-23 "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life……… If anyone takes a human life, that person’s life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in his own image. Gen 9:6 (NLT)
A Life for life: I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
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