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Exodus 1:22 Cross-References

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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Exodus 1:22 (KJV)

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PharaohPharaoh when Moses was born (EXO 1:11)

Commentary on Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive (כָּל־הַבֵּן הַיִּלּוֹד הַיְאֹרָה תַּשְׁלִיכֻהוּ, kol-haben hayilod haye'orah tashlikhuhu)—Pharaoh escalates from secret midwife-executed genocide to public, nation-wide infanticide. Charged all his people makes every Egyptian complicit in the murder of Hebrew boys. Cast into the river—the Nile, Egypt's lifeline and divine symbol, becomes an instrument of death. The tragic irony: the river meant to destroy Moses will become his salvation (2:3), and later the N...

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